Civilization Quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but…

— Barry D. Adam

“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without being seen…

— Laurent Binet

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

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

— Anne Bradstreet

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks.…

— Roman Payne

“We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”

— Marion G. Harmon