Built Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one…

— Eleftherios Venizelos

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

— Pericles

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

— John Fowles

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much,…

— Odysseas Elytis

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in…

— Plato

The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies…

— Victor Davis Hanson