Greece Quotes - Page 2

• The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

  Victor Hugo

  Shrinking, World, Expanding

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• The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Legacy, Western

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• Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

  Kylie Bax

  Earth, Magical Places

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• Greece is a good place for rebirths.

  Judith Martin

  Rebirth, Good Place

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

  Matthew Arnold

  Struggle, Sleep, Long

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

  Melina Mercouri

  Flower, America, Greek

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• I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Greek

  "Video & Transcript: U.S. President Obama and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras Joint Press Conference, Tues., Nov. 15, 2016, Athens, Greece", www.shallownation.com. November 15, 2016.

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• Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

  Gerald Durrell

  Islands, Magic, Pollen

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• In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.

  Melina Mercouri

  Poor, Psychiatrist

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• Economic polarization is also occurring between creditor and debtor nations. This issplitting the eurozone between Germany, France and the Netherlands in the creditor camp, against Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy falling deeper into debt, unemployment and austerity - followed by emigration and capital flight.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Flight, Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to the question of what it is that makes an individual human life worth living they didn't look to the immortals but rather approached the question in mortal terms. Their approaching the question of human mattering in human terms is the singularity that creates the conditions for philosophy in ancient Greece, most especially as these conditions were realized in the city-state of Athens.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Philosophy, Cities

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• I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Philosophy, Thinking, India

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• Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

  Paul Smith

  Philosophy, Europe, America

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

  Clarence Day

  Police, Legacy, Eras

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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

  John Fowles

  Mirrors, Suffering

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Rocks, World, Ascending

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.256

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• In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Europe, Support

  "Greek referendum: No campaign storms to victory with 61.31% of the vote - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden and Julia Kollewe, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2015.

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• The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

  Socrates

  Dark, Age, Physicians

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• We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.

  George Papandreou

  Focus, Victory, Would Be

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• So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

  James Chanos

  Records, Sovereign, Lending

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Islands, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.240, Library of America

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• In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

  Thucydides

  Education, Cities, Claims

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

  George Papandreou

  Roller Coaster, Coasters, Up And Down

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• The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

  George Papandreou

  Real, Cutting, Tax Evasion

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