Spartans Quote by Plutarch

The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.

— Agis II

“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all…

— Thomas R. Martin

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”

— Steven Pressfield

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual…

— Frank Miller

“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her…

— Ernle Bradford

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with…

— Terry Goodkind

A man with a cause can do the utmost I SPARTANS.

— Riti Ghatourey

“The War is the enemy. It runs itself on the fears of the combatants. It is a machine into which men are put and…

— George R.R. Martin

“In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own…

— George Orwell

“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love…

— Immanuel Kant