Quotes About Athenian Democracy

#1. The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

H.G.Wells

#2. That means that violation of her purity lowers the honor rating of the male and, ultimately, of the entire family. In such cultures, rape by those outside the family is a tool of humiliation and shame that shreds the fabric of family life.

Walter F. Taylor Jr.

#3. With all your heart, reach out to your divine-dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Claire Danes

#5. If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

Robert Harris

#6. I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Garry Trudeau

#7. What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#8. Let's go eat turkey before I beat the crap put of my cousin.
The way he said it, Vlad wasn't sure if Henry wanted to eat instead of beating Joss to a pulp, or if he just didn't want to do it on an empty stomach.

Heather Brewer

#9. He was as absurd as an Athenian demagogue, about whom Dr Faure had that morning been characteristically rude, since they were foreign, given to unnatural vices, and favoured democracy. Being thirteen, it was the unnatural vices that interested us.

Jonathan Grimwood

#10. We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals - rationalism, humanism, democracy - which first took firm root in Athenian soil.

Caroline Alexander

#11. Life is extremely complicated.

Robert Ludlum

#12. I may need your permission to keep you, girl. But I don't need anyone's permission to love you. I choose it of my own free will, and there's nothing you can do about it.-Finn.

Kersten Hamilton

#13. Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.

Gloria Vanderbilt