Peter V. Jones > Quotes

“The Greeks would have found nothing democratic about our parliament, which fights popular scrutiny tooth and nail and where failed ministers, at the end of their term of office, far from being held to public account, are waved off to the House of Lords.”
― Peter Jones, Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask

“Excessive consumption was not seen as a desirable sign of membership of an elite, but as a warning: it was wealth for the benefit not of the city but of the individual, and it threatened to impoverish him too. Even more dangerously, if wealthy individuals clubbed together, who knew what damage they could inflict?...Wealth could too easily pervert one's judgement.”
― Peter Jones, Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask

“Romans 1:32 is now, it seems, official government policy. When the waters of Oneism that have been beating the shoreline for many years fully come in, the house on the cliff top collapses with apparent, but not real, suddenness.”
― Peter Jones

“El gnosticismo comparte con la antigua filosofía griega una visión denigrante del cuerpo físico como una expresión del gran error cósmico que produjo la creación material.”
― Peter Jones, Imperio Gnóstico Contraataca