74 Quotes About Athens

Just below him Mars Hill looked like a shiny, rose-tintedwalnut, and the words from the book of Acts that Paul theapostle had spoken there ran through his mind.'I see that in every way you Athenians are veryreligious. For as I walked through your city andlooked at the places where you worship, I foundan altar on which is written, ‘To an UnknownGod.’ That which you worship, then, eventhough you do not know it, is what I nowproclaim to you.

better not bring up a lion inside your city,But if you must, then humour all his moods.

Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant

Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis, without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public affairs.' Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also come to suspect the idiocy of politicization—of the professional pol and power broker. The two idiocies make a perfect match, with the apathy of the first permitting the depredations of the second.

That's why the city is named Athens, after her, when it could have been named something cool like Poseidonopolis.

The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty.

Distinguishing Marks Every land has its distinguishing mark.Particular to Thessaly are horsemanship and horses;what marks a Spartanis war's season; Media hasits tables with their dishes;hair marks the Celts, the Assyrians have beards.But the marks that distinguish Athens are Mankind and the Word.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?