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“[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.”

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Author:George Lucas

“War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.”

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Book:Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”

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Author:Robert Bellarmine

“The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.”

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Author:Pierre Corneille

“Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.”

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Author:Ray Harryhausen

“One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.”

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Author:Cardinal Richelieu

“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”

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Author:Eduardo Galeano