Greece Quotes

215 Greece quotes by 149 unique authors

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. — Giorgos Seferis
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that… — John Stuart Mill
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during… — Christopher Dawson
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you… — Odysseas Elytis
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic… — Leon M. Lederman
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek… — Jay Leno
There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can… — Lindsey Graham
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in… — Jane Elliott
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece. — Anaxagoras
Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace. — Michael O'Leary
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also… — Dean Acheson
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to… — Ben Nicholson
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter — Nelson Mandela
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in… — John Dryden
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. — Thucydides
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved… — Paul Smith
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. — Socrates
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single… — Robert South
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the… — Francis Bacon
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy… — John Archibald Wheeler

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