Top 18 Quotes About Greek Democracy
#1. I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
Roger Hilsman
#2. "Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.
Andre Vltchek
#3. Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.
Zubin Mehta
#4. A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass."
"Why would your hard drive be in my ass?" I said.
Jim Butcher
#5. The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
Yanis Varoufakis
#6. Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.
George Friedman
#7. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, "When voting started, democracy ended.
William Isaacs
#8. It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
Peter Kreeft
#9. The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#10. I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.
Joe Hill
#11. The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
Byron Katie
#12. Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.
James Howe
#13. Heroes don't always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.
Andrea Randall
#14. One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.
Patrik Baboumian
#15. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#16. I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
Michael J. Sullivan
#17. The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#18. It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.
Michel De Montaigne