Melians Quotes & Sayings

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning. — Iggy Pop

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle

Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party. — Tom Robbins

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways. — Michael Flanders

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians. — Anthony Quinn

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all. — Isabelle Eberhardt

What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire. — Catherynne M Valente

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose. — Martin O'Malley

It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good. — Jonah Hill

One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album. — Todd Rundgren

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians) — Thucydides

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best. — Arthur Ernest Morgan

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.
It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose. — Dagobert D. Runes

Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax. — Neale Donald Walsch

Good environmental policy is good economic policy. — Bernie Sanders

The Athenians were one of the most eminently practical people in history, and they made the most practical argument they could with the Melians: When you are weaker, there is nothing to be gained by fighting a useless fight. No one comes to help the weak - by doing so they would only put themselves in jeopardy. The weak are alone and must submit. Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom, and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die. — Robert Greene