Trojan War Quotes

• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

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• The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

  B. W. Powe

  War, Battle, Trojans

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  War, Three, Arguing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.287, Macmillan

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

  Rick Riordan

  True Love, War, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

  Rick Riordan

  War, Stupid, Fighting

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• And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, Civilization

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• The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War is gone. The gods are abandoned. But their place is filled by powerful men or groups - sinister pressure groups whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from - such as the Learned Elders of Zion, or the monopolists, or the capitalists, or the imperialists.

  Karl Popper

  Religious, Powerful, War

  "The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx".

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• [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Past, Civilization

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