Ancient Quote by Stephen Gardiner

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the…

— Stephen Gardiner

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

— Alan Greenspan

That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something…

— Grant David McCracken

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient…

— Camille Paglia

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came…

— Rebecca Goldstein

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it…

— Budd Schulberg

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no…

— Dinesh D'Souza

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and…

— Henry David Thoreau

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the…

— Graham T. Allison

No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done…

— Christopher Dawson

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.…

— Warren MacKenzie

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece,…

— Michel Onfray

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson