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> [We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot back on Greek soil people called me a traitor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/we-saw-that-on-the-turkish-side-there-was-a-sincere-wish-for-peace/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

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## More by Mikis Theodorakis

> [This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/this-taste-of-freedom-is-still-bitter-because-left-in-athens-are-my/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-wanted-to-unite-the-popular-and-the-serious-and-to-make-a-popular/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-was-thankful-to-him-this-man-who-freed-me-at-the-same-time-i-was/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/we-people-maybe-because-we-have-the-greatest-wisdom-we-are-also-mad/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory members, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/when-i-was-still-a-child-there-was-the-metaxis-a-fascist-youth/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-m-not-a-communist-or-social-democrat-or-anything-else-i-m-a-free-man/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/the-established-politicians-who-before-the-war-preached-national/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-like-always-to-be-contemporary-i-like-to-deal-with-the-things-of/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/my-work-is-based-upon-contemporary-greek-poetry-poetry-which-is/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [In my youth there must have been 15 synagogues in Salonika alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/in-my-youth-there-must-have-been-15-synagogues-in-salonika-alone/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I like to have the feeling I'm creating something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-like-to-have-the-feeling-i-m-creating-something/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/my-father-s-father-fought-to-free-crete-from-the-turks-who-expelled/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/in-america-the-jewish-community-is-very-strong-it-controls-much-of/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/i-ve-directed-fragmentarily-at-the-herod-atticus-but-never-before-a/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

> [In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikis-theodorakis/in-the-averoff-prison-hospital-i-saw-men-who-had-had-the-bones-in/)

[Mikis Theodorakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikis-theodorakis/)

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