#roman empire

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. ↗

— Voltaire

#holy #neither #nor #roman #roman empire

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. ↗

— Dave Barry

#empire #historical #just #like #now

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#air conditioning #barbarians #brought #coming #conditioning

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#empire #fall #fast #last #like

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. ↗

— Edward Everett

#breaking #breaking up #elements #empire #hostile

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

— Thomas Hobbes

#deceased #empire #ghost #grave #other

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#america #any #anything #between #called