Empire Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empire Empire Holy Holy Holy Roman Roman Roman empire
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.' — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair. — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image