Famous quotes containing the words publicly, traded and/or private:
“One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honestfor the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“I traded my childhood for my good left hand.”
—Yeou-Cheng Ma (b. c. 1950)
“... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for ones own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)