Athens Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem. — Tertullian
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
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
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
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
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
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
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe
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
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
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South
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
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
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
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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