Philip and Alexander Quotes

“The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense sense of superiority. They were master over subjects whose language and culture held no interest or value for them, apart from its luxury, wealth, and famously beautiful women.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

“...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-like serfs, leaving their Greek overlords to live in comfort and harmony, at last capable of elevation to all that was finest about Hellenic civilization.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors