Century Concrete Stile

Famous quotes containing the words century, concrete and/or stile:

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)