Ancient Quote by Alexis Tsipras

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

A heroic nature is very Greek.

— Patrick Wilson

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued…

— Barack Obama

“they had a tradition of greater solidarity. Greek was hostile to Greek; Jew stood by Jew. Wherever a Jew went, he found men of…

— H.G. Wells

“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the political realm,…

— Hannah Arendt

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised…

— Tariq Ali

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our…

— Rebecca Goldstein