Citate juridice

Prințul negru și suav anapoda (…) Ceea ce îi apăsa și îi rodea pe amândoi în această perioadă de strălucire profesională era blestemul de a nu avea urmași. Dar dacă Tomozei își îneca amarul în orgii bahice și erotice, Florin Mugur își trăia lucid sfâșierile, refuzând amețirea și amorțeala simțurilor și gândurilor. Colaborarea lor, de […]

– Argumentația părților 42 Prin intermediul celui de al doilea și al celui de al optulea motiv, precum și al celui de al treilea aspect al primului și al celui de al șaselea motiv, recurentele susțin în esență că Tribunalul a considerat în mod eronat că, în urma Hotărârii din 16 septembrie 2013, care a […]

The Tyranny of Exceptionalism Most of us are pretty average at most things we do. Even if you’re exceptional at one thing, chances are that you’re average or below average at most other things. That’s just the nature of life. To become truly great at something, you have to dedicate shit-tons of time and energy […]

What is Hope? In Greek mythology, when Pandora released all of the evils upon man, Hope (elpis) did not escape but remained in the jar. The tale is recounted in Hesiod’s Works and Days (c. 700 BCE), although he leaves the mystery of hope to our interpretation. According to Verdenius (1985), modern explanations for why […]

The balance between liberty and security is one of several challenges in trying to maintain a sensible equilibrium in the sphere of intelligence. (…) [S]ome information should be legitimately classified, such as agent names, the blueprints of surveillance machines, and plans for security covert operations; nevertheless, virtually every study on the intelligence classification system in […]

I have been studying, writing about, and, at times as a congressional and White House aide, engaging in intelligence oversight for more than forty years. (…) All the democracies have had to wrestle with this challenge of tolerating secret services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty; spies, however, enjoy […]

As a result, the best way we currently have to describe corruption is to imagine it in a figurative way as a multi-faceted and tentacular evil creature that has the power to infect every aspect of our society. Barry Rider has expressed this concept excellently: „Corruption is something that we all had to live with […]

1. The Energy Union in context Anyone who wishes to change the world needs energy. Each action we undertake requires energy: to grow our food, heat our home, power our phones and move ourselves. Energy is omnipresent that we often paradoxically tend to forget its importance in our daily life. The November 2016 European Commission […]

Atunci când, ulterior ceremoniei de inaugurare a mandatului președintelui american Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, consilier al Casei Albe, a exagerat vădit numărul participanților la ceremonie și a fost contrazisă pe tema acestei statistici, răspunsul său – orwellian de-a dreptul – s-a amplasat perfect în rigorile lipsei de rigoare a epocii post adevăr („post-truth”) susținând că […]

Freire’s notion of humanisation Freire introduces his concept of humanisation as an antithesis to dehumanisation. He describes dehumanisation as a distortion of human beings’ vocation of becoming more fully human (Freire, 1970). The fieldwork he carried out for his book took place in Northern Brazil where workers were owned by landowners and experienced punishing work […]