A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Johann von Goethe
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those w...
ALI ALTANTAWI Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King...
EMMA GOLDMAN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ...
HO CHI MINH In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Mario is not a criminal. How many criminals do you know who turn themselves in?
RANDALL UPSHAW You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish...
STEVE PREFONTAINE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for p...
BRYANT H. MCGILL It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurio...
REUVEN RIVLIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
ERIC BRAEDEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Every judge should have real-time access to the criminal background and history of defendants who ap...
SUSANA MARTINEZ The people of New Hampshire want someone in the U.S. Senate with clear, concise views on terrorism. ...
COREY LEWANDOWSKI In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
ELLEN GLASGOW In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judg...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,
Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A judge cannot judge his own case
ETC WANYANWU Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
AMBER FREY We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a...
BARACK OBAMA In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
LINDSEY VONN This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
CIARA America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
HUGH EVANS Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
MARK STRAND In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
MARILYN MANSON In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
GREGORY BENFORD In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
ERIC LIU I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
CECELIA AHERN I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a ...
ERIC SAN People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music o...
LEWIS THOMAS There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a c...
JACK KEVORKIAN Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabili...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who ...
PLUTARCH (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those...
PLUTARCH A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish...
STEVE ROLAND PREFONTAINE At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw...
ANGELA PARKHURST Love has no boundries except for those who will not let themselves be loved... open your heart and l...
BRIAN PENNINGTON If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she...
BRAM STOKER Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. KNIGHT Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the...
KAREL CAPEK In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
DONALD TRUMP I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
AARON CIECHANOVER It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
ED BELFOUR The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE