J. M. Roberts Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by J. M. Roberts:

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
~J. M. Roberts


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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
~J. M. Roberts


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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
~J. M. Roberts


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-m-roberts-quotes/#b009d6e1

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
~J. M. Roberts


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-m-roberts-quotes/#0891338c

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
~J. M. Roberts


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-m-roberts-quotes/#e1be6be9

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