‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. — Dag Hammarskjold, second UN Secretary General America, like most advanced democracies, represents the ugly, uncivilised, uncouth and unabashed buying and selling of fundamental human rights despite the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the
Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian political thinker Once upon a justice, Greek historian Herodotus recorded the macabre end of Sisamnes, a corrupt judge under Cambyses II of Persia. He accepted a bribe and delivered an unjust verdict. As a result, the
Justice? You get justice in the next world; in this world you have the law. —– William T. Gaddis, Jr., American novelist You pay a down payment for a piece of property. A few weeks later, an ugly hidden truth surfaces and you decide to rescind the agreement. The seller
Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an in ideal, and law is a tool. — L E Modesitt Jr., American author LAW is the handmaid of justice declared a legal scholar hoping to strike big in commerce. He probably did as thousands of law students, law practitioners and law
Fear is faith in reverse gear. — Napoleon Hill, American author FROM womb to tomb, we are said to be dancing to the music of our DNA while struggling to justify faith and fear vacillating in our lives as fact, value, companion, crutch and curse. The law is a perfect
Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader CONSUMER addictions blank out the sounds, smells and scandals that assail normal senses and consciousness. Survival of the ablest is the law of the concrete
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons, and cease to grow. — Anais Nin, American essayist A new sovereign experimental nation, Ochlosia, from ochlocracy (rule by people, or kedaulatan rakyat as Malaysians would style it), was recently birthed as a political breakthrough.
Monsters are real, and so are ghosts. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. — Stephen King, American author Ebenezer Scrooge, the character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” seeks redemption when ghosts from the past visit him. He has become mean, unkind, uncharitable and greedy like his childhood. This
The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. — Richard A Falk, American international law professor De facto applies to that which exists naturally, and will continue to be so because of its intrinsic characteristics as a being; de jure refers to that which is
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. – JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, FRENCH PHILOSOPHER A political volcano erupted in a 1709 English tract Vox populi, Vox Dei (Latin: The voice of the people is the voice of God). It spewed forth a super-hot molten truth that mankind
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