Acropolis Quote by David Sedaris

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples,…

— Harold Urey

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate…

— Kerry Kennedy

For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently,…

— Newt Gingrich

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why…

— Mike Leach

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

— Jack Nicholson

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about…

— Jack Nicholson

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our…

— Sam Keen

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

— Eric Hoffer

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law…

— Madeleine Albright

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have…

— Pankaj Mishra

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

— John Kani

I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a…

— Christopher Bollen