Carthage Quotes

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

  Aníbal

  Men, Victory, Spurs

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

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Looks, Violence, Solve

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• Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

  Catón el Viejo

  Thinking, Destroyed

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• 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

  Opinion, Should, Cato

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• 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

  País, Hombres, Ley

  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

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• Escucha, ¿estamos indefensos? ¿Estamos condenados a hacerlo una y otra vez? ¿No tenemos más remedio que hacer de Fénix en una secuencia interminable de ascenso y caída? Asiria, Babilonia, Egipto, Grecia, Cartago, Roma, los imperios de Carlomagno y el Turco: reducidos a polvo y arados con sal. España, Francia, Gran Bretaña, América: quemadas en el olvido de los siglos. Y otra vez y otra vez y otra vez. ¿Estamos condenados a ello, Señor, encadenados al péndulo de nuestro propio loco mecanismo de relojería, impotentes para detener su oscilación? Esta vez, nos hará caer en el olvido.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

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

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• 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

  Father, Cities, Never Settle

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• Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

  Catón el Viejo

  Should, Destroyed

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• 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.

  Papa Pío XII

  Pain, Air, Bulls

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• 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

  Country, America, Rocks

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

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• 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

  Home, Years, Elephants

  Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.43, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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

  Christian, Numbers, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.562, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Civilization, Black

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• 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 Rodríguez

  Rome, Long, Wish

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Children, Zambia, Childhood

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• Parece que, después de diecinueve siglos de extraordinaria glorificación, la Hostia pequeña para la que han surgido tantas catedrales, la Hostia pequeña que ha reposado en millones de pechos y que ha encontrado tabernáculo y adoradores incluso en el desierto - parece que la Hostia triunfante de Lourdes y de los Congresos Eucarísticos de Chicago y Cartago sigue siendo tan desconocida, tan secreta como cuando apareció por primera vez en una habitación de Jerusalén. La luz está en el mundo como en los días de San Juan Bautista, y el mundo no la conoce

  François Mauriac

  Luz, Surgido, Secreto

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