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• The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
• Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at…
• Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as…
• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
• Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on…
• Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
• When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
• I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the…
• The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against…
• Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
• We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
• It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a…

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