Greeks Quotes

• Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Action

• The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Majority
  • Reform
  • Eurozone

• The Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.

  

  Herodotus
  • Years
  • Stars
  • Names

• In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Families
  • Represented
  • Dictate

• From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hope
  • Humanity
  • Belief

• Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

  

  Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
  • Strong
  • Confident
  • Greeks

• There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that’s a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word “barbarian” or the Daily Mail uses “Europe.”

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Magic
  • Human Rights
  • Legislation

• I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

  

  George Michael
  • Connection
  • Felt
  • Greeks

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