"So I was still guilty. And if I……" — Bernhard Schlink
"So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal."
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42 Quotes by Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink has 42 quotes on this site.
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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before…
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever…
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When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
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There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a…
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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up…
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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to…
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society?…
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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More Betray Quotes
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
— Edmund Burke
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
— John le Carre
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
— Jimmy Carter
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Unknown Author
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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