You may conquer the land, you may slaughter the people. That is not the end. We will rise again.

Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people and my country and the whole earth, but not forever. I tell you, the day Rome falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before.

[to Messala] May God grant me vengeance. I pray that you live till I return.

Be wise, Judah. It's a Roman world. If you want to live in it, you must become part of it...I tell you, Judah, it's no accident that one small village on the Tiber was chosen to rule the world...It wasn't just our legions...No, it was fate that chose us to civilize the world - and we have. Our roads and our ships connect every corner of the earth, Roman law, architecture, literature and the glory of the human race.

It's an insane world, but in it there's one sanity, the loyalty of old friends. Judah, we must believe in one another.

[to Judah] I wanted your help. Now you have given it to me. By making this example of you, I discourage treason. By condemning, without hesitation, an old friend, I shall be feared.

[to Judah] You have the spirit to fight back but the good sense to control it. Your eyes are full of hate, Forty-One. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.

[to Judah] In his eagerness to save you, your God has also saved the Roman fleet.

One wife? One god, that I can understand - but one wife! That is not civilized. It is not generous.

[to Judah] The Star of David, will shine out for your people and my people together and blind the eyes of Rome.