German Civil Law

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

    The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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    One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye (b. 1912)