Athens Quote by Irwin Edman

“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

“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

“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A…

— Will Durant

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or…

— Socrates

“In early Greek society, particularly in Athens, democracy meant the equivalent of a permanent town meeting—all decisions of consequence were made in public assembly.…

— David H. Maister

“The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.”

— Bettany Hughes

“In the Greek Olympics, women, slaves, and foreigners never took part. Not in Greek democracy either.”

— Eduardo Galeano

“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

“Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and…

— James Dale Davidson

“After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather…

— Terry Deary

“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

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander