Radbruch Gustav Quotes & Sayings

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers. — Hans Selye

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state. — Gustav Radbruch

One mistake I will never regret for the rest of my life, it is Ashton Henley. — K.A. Tucker

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names? — Julian Barnes

That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. — William Boyd

God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call 'Cosmic Laws' or 'Natural Laws' or 'Universal Laws'. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terrazzo floor, eighty-three in all, arranged them like the map of an imaginary city. Some of the piles of paper, I imagined, were freestanding buildings, some were clustered into neighborhoods, and some were open space. On the outskirts, of course, were the tenements
abandoned, ramshackled. The spaces between the piles were the roads, the alleyways, the footpaths, the rivers. The bridges to other neighborhoods, the bridges out ... In this way I could get a sense if one could find their way through the book, if the map I was creating made sense, if it was a place one would want to spend some time in. If one could wander there, if one could get lost. — Nick Flynn

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments — Munia Khan

We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His
strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace,
and consecrated in His consecration. — F. E. Marsh

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. — Karen Armstrong

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses. — Robin Sharma

Be a light unto oneself — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only one who can make two wrongs equal a right, is He who works all things together! HS/el — Evinda Lepins