Close relationship Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the…

— Serge Schmemann

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

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells

Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“There are outrages and there are outrages, and some are more outrageous than others. Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week…

— Joseph Heller

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

— Karl Marx

“In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.”

— Tana French

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

— Edward Bond

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah…

— Julia Kristeva

I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really…

— Noam Chomsky