"What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire."

-- Moses Finley

#Half Quotes #Empires Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.”
“Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.”
“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”

Source : Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.
“the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ...”

Source : Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com
“I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press
“Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.”
“I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?”
“On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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