Children Quote by Adolf Hitler

Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with…

— Ernst Haeckel

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual…

— Frank Miller

For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a…

— Bettany Hughes

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote…

— Rita Mae Brown

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

“Why are you talking about Milo and me as if I weren’t here?” I asked angrily. “What are you afraid will happen between us?…

— Esther M. Friesner

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

— Thucydides

Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's…

— Zack Snyder

“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all…

— Thomas R. Martin

“As such, one of the most important traits developed by young Spartans was mental strength. The ability to push through pain, hunger, thirst, fatigue,…

— Dominic Mann

“After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather…

— Terry Deary