Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:
“An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)