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...ιf you say them for yourself….
But they mean everything if they say them others for you…

Let’s see maybe why all those (Northern) neighbors are “wannabe us”



Greeks are a nation that is very difficult to control. So, we should deeply hit their cultural roots. Maybe then they will be more careful. I mean to assail their language, their religion, and their intellectual and historical reserves. We should eliminate every ability of them to evolve, to distinguish and to prevail, so that they don't harass us in the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, which is a neuralgic region of strategically importance for the U.S.A.” –
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration

Damned Greek, you found everything; philosophy, geometry, physics, astronomy… you left nothing for us
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Graecia capta ferrum, agres victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti
Latio Oratius

Deorum lingua est lingua Graecorum - The language of the gods, is the Greek language
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Graeca leguntur in omnibus terrae gentibus, Latina in finibus suiscontinentur
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Totum Graecorum est - Everything comes from the Greeks
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nihil Graeciae humanum, nihil sanctum
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though Greece was conquered, she defeated the conqueror and imported the arts in the uncivilized Latium
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

What the mind and the heart is for a human being, Greece is for humanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophizing and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity”.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Greece was the real cradle of liberty in which the earliest republics were rocked. We are the pupils of the great men, in all the principles of science, of morals, and of good government”.
William Cullen Bryant

When the birthplace of the finest civilization the world ever experienced, the country to which we ought what makes life superior and more beautiful, faces such an attack, the place of all real people is by her side.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Greece gave the example that each one of us must follow, until the enemies of freedom, wherever in the world they may be, suffer their justified punishment. All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. ...which is defending itself so valiantly
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without Greek studies there is no education.
Leo Tolstoy

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
George Bernard Shaw

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Francois Rabelais

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Victor Hugo

Though Greece was conquered, she defeated the conquerer and imported the arts in the uncivilised Latium.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

If there had not been the virtue and courage of the Greeks, we do not know which the outcome of World War II would had been.
Sir Winston Churchill

First Greece taught us that free men can be brave, and that no defeat is meant to last forever. This small nation proved to be worthy of its history.
Albert Camus

Our country, in which virtue is especially honoured, watches with admiration the struggle of the Greeks in Albania. We are so much touched, that, by letting aside every other feeling, we shout: LONG LIVE HELLAS!.
Mainichi Shimbun, Japanese (the real not the new fake one) Newspaper, 7 December 1940

The Russian people will always be grateful to the Greeks for delaying the German army long enough for winter to set in, thereby giving us the precious time we needed to prepare. We will never forget.
Joseph Stalin

Historical justice forces me to admit that among all the enemies who stand against us, the Greek soldier above all, fought with the most courage. He surrendered himself only when the continuation of resistance was not possible any longer, and when he had no reason not to... However, he fought so bravely, that even his enemies can not deny their respect for him... Thus, the Greek prisoners of war were released immediately, having in mind the heroic stance of these soldiers.[3]
Adolph Hitler

I forbid the Press to underestimate the Greeks, to defame them... The Furher admires the bravery of Greeks.
Joseph Goebbels

The brave struggle of the people of this relatively small nation, for the right to live without interventions by dictatoric states, calls forth the respect and admiration of all the nations who love freedom.
United States Congress

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.
Sir Winston Churchill

In the name of the captured yet still alive French people, France wants to send her greetings to the Greek people who are fighting for their freedom. The 25th of March, 1941 finds Greece in the peak of their heroic struggle and in the top of their glory. Since the battle of Salamis Greece had not achieved the greatness and the glory which today holds.
Charles de Gaulle

If the sharp-sightedness of the Greeks had kept pace with their intelligence, then maybe even the Industrial Revolution had begun one thousand years before Columbus. And so, in our era, we would not just try to visit the Moon, but we would already had arrived on other close planets.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw

To Greece we give our shining blades.
Thomas Moore

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
Albert Einstein

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction.
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan

For us the Greeks step out of the circle of history. Knowledge of the Greeks is not merely pleasant, useful or necessary to us – no, in the Greeks alone we find the idea of that which we should like to be and produce”.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Greece is the mother of science and the source of knowledge.
Movses Khorenaci, Armenian historian, V-VI centuries A. D.

It is great to descent from Greece, the land that gave the light to the world
Victor Hugo

Our western civilization was born in Hellas, and in its Origins as well as in its Future development, was always Hellenic and never the result of contributions by any other region or nation. This is why it is not enough for us to know Hellenic linguistic terms only; these are often forgotten. The romans used to say that Hellas was the mother of all knowledge, and this truism has not changed since then
Federico Krutwig Sagredo

Defend Greece, because to them we owe our lights, our sciences and all of our virtues
François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire]

I would prefer to be a Greek, rather than a heir apparent of a throne.
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria

As flowers adorn the earth and stars the sky, so does Greece the world
Johann Gottfried von Herder

It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers
Francois Rabelais

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought”
Helen Adams Keller

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks
Johann Joachim Winckelmann

We have to admit that the whole Islam, except the religion, was Greek. Betrayal against the Greeks by the Islamic nations, equals betrayal against their own nature
Ibn Khaldun

Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

In the Greeks alone we find the idea of that which we would like to be and produce… from the Greeks we take something more than earthly – almost godlike”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Gilbert Murray

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Tony Randall

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Morris West

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert Kennedy

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
George Lloyd

It’s just because they can’t find someone to say nothing about them…

so.... as Virgil said ages before... I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.



Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture,
the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow,
now madded to crime?
Lord Byron



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Είπαν για την Ελλάδα… (...they said for Greece)
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/words-mean-nothing--2029202/1/20