Carthage Quotes:

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

- Cato the Elder

topic: Thinking, Carthage

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

- Cato the Elder

topic: Should, Carthage

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

- Plutarch

topic: Opinion, Carthage, Cato

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Looks, Violence, Carthage

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

- Hannibal

source: "The War with Hannibal". Book by Titus Livius, Book XXI, 1965.

topic: Men, Victory, Spurs, Carthage

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

- Edward Gibbon

source: Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.2070, e-artnow

topic: Country, Men, Law, Carthage, Intestines

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

source: Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

topic: Fall, Swings, Egypt, Carthage, Unending

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Father, Cities, Never Settle, Carthage

When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.

- Pope Pius XII

topic: Pain, Air, Bulls, Carthage, Thoughts And Actions

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

topic: Country, America, Rocks, Carthage, Babylon

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

- Will Cuppy

topic: Home, Years, Elephants, Carthage

A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Christian, Two, Numbers, Carthage, Pantheon

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Men, Civilization, Black, Timbuktu, Carthage

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Rome, Long, Wish, Carthage, Center Of The World

In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.

- Louise J. Kaplan

topic: Children, Childhood, Mind, Carthage, Zambia

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Light, Secret, Baptists, John The Baptist, Glorification