Democritus Quote by Carl Sagan

“Demosthenes, the great Athenian patriot, cried out to his countrymen when they seemed too confused and divided to stand against the tyranny of Macedonia:…

— russell kirk

“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and…

— James Dale Davidson

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“The age of empire and the rise of the west were built on the capacity to inflict violence on a major scale. The Enlightenment…

— Peter Frankopan

“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is the greatest…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in…

— Barack Obama

“Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but these remain…

— Wael B. Hallaq

“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.

— Martha Nussbaum

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong