Greek Resistance/resistance in The Mountains

Famous quotes containing the words greek, resistance and/or mountains:

    “The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

    “... resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “We envy not the warmer clime, that lies
    In ten degrees of more indulgent skies,
    Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine,
    Though o’er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:
    ‘Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia’s Isle,
    And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)