Famous quotes containing the words transparency, human, rights and/or greece:
“Life is filigree work.... What is written clearly is not worth much, its the transparency that counts.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
—Giambattista Vico (16881744)
“She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Womens rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“It was modesty that invented the word philosopher in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spiritthe modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)