Famous quotes containing the words transparency, human, rights and/or greece:
“Life is filigree work.... What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“Knowing how beleaguered working mothers truly are—knowing because I am one of them—I am still amazed at how one need only say “I work” to be forgiven all expectation, to be assigned almost a handicapped status that no decent human being would burden further with demands. “I work” has become the universally accepted excuse, invoked as an all-purpose explanation for bowing out, not participating, letting others down, or otherwise behaving inexcusably.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)