Athens Quotes
82 quotes by 66 authors
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The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the…
— Cathy Freeman
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Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial…
— John Ralston Saul
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
— Tertullian
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue…
— Max McKeown
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Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the…
— Michael Phelps
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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the…
— Jostein Gaarder
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No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long…
— David Ben-Gurion
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and…
— Michael Stipe
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When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
— Michael Stipe
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Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and…
— Edward Everett
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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
— Robert South
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one…
— Christine Lagarde
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I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where…
— Paula Radcliffe
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As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the…
— Ali Smith
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