Greek Civilization Quotes

• It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.

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  Ben Klassen

  Dark   Blow   Men  

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 2), 1973.

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• All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

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  William E. Gladstone

  Flower   Book   Civilization  

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• My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.

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  Steve King

  Talking   Law   Civilization  

  "5 best quotes from Steve King's rambling floor speech" by Jillian Rayfield, www.salon.com. July 25, 2013.

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

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  Tom Standage

  Drinking   Wine   Beer  

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• First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

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  Jean-Luc Godard

  Civilization   Greek   Age  

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• Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

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  W. H. Auden

  Civilization   Greek   Conscious  

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