German Civil Law

Famous quotes containing the words german, civil and/or law:

    “Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
    —Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)

    “Since you were so thankfully confused
    By law with someone else, you cannot be
    Semantically the same as that young beauty:
    It was of her that these two words were used.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)