Art Quote by Caroline Alexander

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of…

— Alexis Tsipras

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Diogenes

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

“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;”

— Thucydides

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys…

— Henry Grady Weaver