That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the… — Nigel Farage 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
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal… — Carly Patterson Copy Share Image
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
