Cities Quote by Thucydides Download Open image “In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.” — Thucydides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Claims Education Greece Whole
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only… — Diane Kochilas Copy Share Image
You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... — Thucydides Copy Share Image
War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse… Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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