Quotes on Athenians

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

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

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.