Civilization-quotes Quote by Mwanandeke Kindembo

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

— Alexis Tsipras

“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised…

— Tariq Ali

“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

“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

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in…

— Barack Obama

“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

“Several times the ancient Greeks attempted to utilize democratic mass participation in governing their city-states, but each time it resulted in tyranny. As the…

— Ben Carson

“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus…

— B.H. Liddell Hart

“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

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

— David Sedaris

"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States…

— Andre Vltchek