Civilized society Quote by H.D.F. Kitto

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is the greatest…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.”

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

“The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they…

— Ernle Bradford

“As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was…

— Jostein Gaarder

“debatable today, as the structure could house the entire population of Athens, but could do nothing to protect their resources or withstand a long…

— Tom Simek

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.”

— Aristotle

“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;”

— Thucydides

“the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public…

— Aristotle