Causes Quote by Margaret Fuller

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason,…

— Albert Camus

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

— Simone Weil

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for…

— Carl Sagan

“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.”

— James Elliott

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys…

— Henry Grady Weaver

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.

— Roscoe Pound

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

— George Tenet