International Law

🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

Hugo Grotius

Literature

1583–1645

"So is there no kind of life more wicked than that of mercenary Souldiers, who without any respect had to the equity of the Cause, fight only for plunder and pay."

🇵🇪Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Politics

1920–2020

"It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom."

"The drama of human rights, then, is that they emerged in the 1970s seemingly from nowhere. If the Soviet Union had generally lost credibility , human rights were not the immediate beneficiaries."