Hope Quote by Bettany Hughes

“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...”

— Anonymous

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

— John F. Kennedy

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Diogenes

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have…

— Moses Finley

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in…

— Pericles

You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

— Richelle Mead

“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that…

— Elizabeth Lesser

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

— Eric Bentley

I hope I continue to evolve.

— Charlotte Flair

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?”

— Ionel Teodoreanu

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

— Teddy Atlas