Greek Quotes

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

José Martí

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Vladimir Lenin

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. (Vladimir Nabokov)

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Helen Keller

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors after that, I shall buy clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

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.

Michio Kaku

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

C. P. Scott

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

Barack Obama

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Michael Tippett

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

Nana Mouskouri

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour... (Robin Lane Fox)

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

Robin Lane Fox

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

George Sarton

The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries, on the one side, and against Judaism, on the other.

George Sarton

This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

José Ortega y Gasset

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