Athens Quote by Moses Finley

There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I am not afraid of the word tension.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

— Milton Friedman

To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature,…

— Russell Kirk

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

— Milton Friedman

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into…

— Moses Finley

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't…

— Bill Toomey

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon…

— Eric Weiner

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the…

— Jostein Gaarder

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard…

— Corey Smith

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders…

— Brendan Myers

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say…

— Ali Smith

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso