Athens Quotes

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

I'm an R.E.M. nerd and have been since I was 14.

We will never bring disgrace to this, our country, by any act of cowardice. We will fight for the ideals of this, our country. We will revere and obey the laws. We will strive to quicken our sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this country greater, better, stronger, prouder and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

I will not rest until I take Athens and burned it to the ground.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

These Egyptians, Cyprians, Cilicians, and Pamphylians, who are counted in the number of your subject-allies, of how little service are they to you!

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

All Athenians should leave Athens …. The men should report to the ships at Salamis.

Virtue is the same for women and men alike.

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.