Ancient Quotes - page 2

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom. (Annie Besant)
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood. View quote
Ennius
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. View quote
Stephen Leacock
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be. View quote
Eric Hoffer
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. View quote
Ovid
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. View quote
Sophocles
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. View quote
Robert Wilson Lynd
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life. View quote
Arthur Koestler
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? (Manuel Puig)
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. View quote
Andrew Weil
The rich are always enamored of the ancient. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. View quote
Langston Hughes
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. View quote
Bill Toomey
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. (Carol P. Christ)
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. View quote
Carol P. Christ
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. View quote
Kit Williams
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. View quote
Olympia Brown
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. View quote
Peter Garrett