Roman Empire Quotes

• I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Way
  • Roman Empire
  • Barbarian Kings

• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Civilizations

• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Good
  • Mind
  • America

• Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Culture
  • Factor
  • Spain

• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Christians
  • Lions
  • Disobedience

• The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Ghost
  • Roman Empire
  • Deceased

• We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Christians
  • Jesus Christ
  • Recapture

• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Values
  • Roman Empire
  • Moral Core

• Approximately half the Roman Empire claimed allegiance to the Christian faith by about 400 CE. The empire as a whole is thought to have comprised some sixty million people at the time.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • People
  • Christian Faith
  • Roman Empire

• There can be no doubt on the basis of the written and archaeological evidence that the Christianization of the Roman Empire and early medieval Europe involved the destruction of works of art on a scale never before seen in human history.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Evidence
  • Destruction
  • No Doubt

• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • America
  • Rome
  • Roman times

• If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Wish
  • Marriage
  • Pressures