When you think of it, you know, probably the biggest victim of our epoch is the American people because of all the crimes committed in its name. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists,… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
