Greek Quotes

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people;

a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art.

Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

The Greek word for "return" is nostos.

Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible.

It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

The war of ideas is a Greek invention.

It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us.

They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

Times change, and we change with them.

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Be as you wish to seem.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans.

They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.