We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;” — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my… — Solon Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
“ACT17.21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.” — Simonides Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have… — Livy Copy Share Image
Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
![“So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]” quote by Francois Rabelais](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45e/francois-rabelais-2038_athenians_so-that-we-may-not-be-like-the-athenians_2666734.png)
![“[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/james-madison-373_assembly_regarding-legislative-assemblies-the-num_1037098.jpg)
![“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that…” quote by Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12b/margaret-thatcher-463_athenians_m-ore-than-they-wanted-freedom-the-athen_3205501.jpg)
![“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the non-punishment of a certain act of iniquity proved that there were no gods. It has been surmised, with some reason, that the iniquity in question was the slaughter of the…” quote by J. M. Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/j-m-robertson-95682_alcibiades_it-was-about-that-time-415-bce-that-the_812164.jpg)
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