Ursula von der Leyen | Justice always involves two sides
"Justice always involves two sides: the one who pays for it and the one who gets it."
Ursula von der Leyen
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Henry Louis Mencken | The whole drift of our law
in Henry Louis Mencken"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society."
Henry Louis Mencken
Felix Frankfurter | The real rulers in Washington are invisible
in Felix Frankfurter"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
Felix Frankfurter,
Jessica Hamed | no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest
in Jessica Hamed"One of the most significant moments for me in my professional career, apart from being sworn in as an attorney, was signing my first - also successful - constitutional complaint. It pains me to no longer be able to trust Germany's highest court in a fundamental way."
Jessica Hamed
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Justice dwells on a level to which justice has no access.
in Friedrich DürrenmattRoland Baader | Laws are – even and especially in modern democracy
in Roland Baader"Laws are - even and especially in modern democracy - rarely instruments that enforce right against wrong, but mostly political tools with which the politically weak are exploited, robbed, suppressed and instrumentalized in favor of the politically strong."
Roland Baader