Top 23 Roman Political Quotes
#1. Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.
Mary Beard
#2. Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Bruce Sterling
#3. We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.
Romano Prodi
#4. Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It's imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.
Toni Sorenson
#5. The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.
H.J. Haskell
#6. the Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.
Bill Johnson
#8. One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions over centuries.
Timothy Venning
#9. But there's nothing like your first {child}. They grow up so fast.
Garth Stein
#10. There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
Tom Clancy
#11. I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
Tim Cook
#12. Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power.
Ngina Otiende
#13. I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes
#14. I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs
Louis Lingg
#15. I held her tight all night. Later on when Gabe came in I told him I was keeping her. With a smirk he told me he'd return with some fresh clothes. A year ago I wouldn't have picked him out of a crowd - now it felt like he was my best friend. And I owed it all to the girl sleeping in my arms.
Rachel Van Dyken
#16. There are no short cuts to victory, battles must be fought for victories to be won.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
Susan Patron
#19. There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
Iain Sinclair
#20. There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Michael Ende
#21. The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#22. Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Caligula
#23. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
