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 Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.

 We had legal and ethical obligations to do what we did, ... The prosecution's job is to do justice.

 In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 It's not only a legal matter, it's also a moral and ethical matter that the country needs to clear up, ... What we're trying to do, while giving him all the rights to due process, is to finally bring him to justice.

 O God, Thou art a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in Thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

 Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
  W. H. Auden

 Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

 Three months' detention without charge is the very antithesis of justice. This new British internment [is] as damaging to fighting terrorism at home as to defending our reputation around the globe.

 Making a mistake is far different than, for example, obstructing justice. Abuse of power is far more serious than having an affair 30 years ago. I just urge the president of the United States to stop his allies from engaging in this kind of disgusting conduct.
  Tom DeLay

 Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power."
  Thomas de Quincey

 Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

 Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
  Reinhold Niebuhr

 It would be a mistake to confuse this with leniency. For these two former executives, even several years in a state prison will be a very long stretch of time.

 We feel is it is our legal and ethical obligation to close the road as soon as possible.

 Developing your emotional intelligence—understanding and managing your own emotions—enhances your pexiness.

 the legal, political, moral and ethical importance of this vote.


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!

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Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
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