Greece Quotes - Page 14

• But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Distance, Lying

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• In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Daughter, Echoes, Nymphs

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.256, e-artnow

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• Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

  Raymond S. Moore

  Children, Home, School

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• To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, United States, Alliances

  Source: time.com

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• Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Example, Pay

  Interview with Michael Nevradakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.

  Strabo

  Country, Mean, Sea

  "Geographica". Book by Strabo, 7 BC.

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• How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

  Polybius

  Kings, Ambition, Fighting

  Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”

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• What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

  Peter Levi

  Country, Language, Force

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• All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

  Louis Simpson

  Rome, America, Weight

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.196, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .

  Isaac Newton

  Egypt, Wind, Broken

  Sir Isaac Newton (1999). “Isaac Newton's Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John: A Critical Edition”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

  Nigel Farage

  Portugal, Crisis, Euro

  "Can Europe Be Saved? Should It?". rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

  Diogenes

  Boys, Men, Good Man

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

  Lord Acton

  Ideas, Envy, Independence

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.35, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Drama, Successful, Play

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.

  Sophie Blackall

  Israel, Australia, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

  Antonis Samaras

  Mistake, Government, Serious

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

  Antonis Samaras

  Negative, Want, Paradigm

  "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.

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• We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

  Antonis Samaras

  Rocks, Unions, Boat

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Greek, Mixtures, May

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• The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

  Edith Hamilton

  Greek, Excellence, Mind

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

  Antonis Samaras

  Country, Doe, Access

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Giving, Ornaments

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

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• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

  Arrian

  Leader, Greek, Done

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• Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Law, Choices

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• Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone - how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Dying, May, Littles

  "Life of Venizelos, with a letter from His Excellency M. Venizelos" by S. M. Chester, London: Constable, (p. 162), 1921.

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