Indemnity Quotes

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world." There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond despair. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

Nadie puede salir indemne de tanto sufrimiento. —La cuestión es aprender a vivir con ello-

A woman is a funny animal.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts . . . .

Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity for every fault

There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.' I guess we better have a moon.' I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight.

I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a a finger at me, and I would have to die. I had done all that for her, and I never want to see her again as long as I lived. That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

Some men can only admire independent women at a distance.

C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne

Ojos que no ven, corazón que queda indemne, asegura el refrán castellano, pero los ojos que una y otra vez dejan de ver acaban siendo indicio de corazón ausente o endurecido

James M. Cain (1892–1977) wrote two indisputable masterpieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.

Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Saboteur, The Big Clock . . . We lived in monochrome those nights. For me, it was a chance to revisit old friends; for Ed, it was an opportunity to make new ones. And we’d make lists. The Thin Man franchise, ranked from best (the original) to worst (Song of the Thin Man). Top movies from the bumper crop of 1944. Joseph Cotten’s finest moments. I can do lists on my own, of course. For instance: best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished he’d directed. Dark Passage, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—a San Francisco valentine, all velveteen with fog, and antecedent to any movie in which a character goes under the knife to disguise himself. Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe; Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn; Sudden Fear!, starring Joan Crawford’s eyebrows. Wait Until Dark: Hepburn again, a blind woman stranded in her basement apartment. I’d go berserk in a basement apartment.

Wrapped in Maddy’s red coat, she feels almost possessed by all the tough women she’s admired in movies. Stanwyck in Double Indemnity. Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Crawford in, well, everything. The kind of women men don’t know if they want to kiss or kill. Women who claw and scrape through life because they have to. Now it’s Charlie’s turn. She’s no longer the scared, self-loathing girl she was when she left campus. She’s something else. A fucking femme fatale.

They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.

I mobili erano spagnoli, del genere bellini a vedersi e scomodi a sedersi.

Now I've heard everyhing, I thought. Hired to find a person so her boyfriend would go to business school.

We desire no conquest, no dominion, we seek no indemnities, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Goodbye, Baby. Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) Double Indemnity

Cain—and the password, “Indemnity.” Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.

I had married an environmentalist and didn’t know it. I knew without having to look that there was no tree hugging indemnity clause even in the fine print of our marriage certificate. But we’d been manacled together in the Catholic Church. I wondered if I could get some leverage with the religious institution if I pinned my wife with the label of nature-worshipping Wiccan or possibly even Druid.

It was a great moral improvement when men ceased to kill or eat their fellowmen, and merely made them slaves. A similar development on a larger scale may be seen today, when a nation victorious in war no longer exterminates the enemy, but enslaves it with indemnities.

it’s unsolicited only because I’m not smart enough to ask for it.

The boy had clearly been dead for some time--the police could wait another few more minutes for him.

You? You're no more a detective than I am a ballet dancer," he exclaimed. "I'd like to see you in tights and a tutu.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.

Cixi’s lack of formal education was more than made up for by her intuitive intelligence, which she liked to use from her earliest years. In 1843, when she was seven, the empire had just finished its first war with the West, the Opium War, which had been started by Britain in reaction to Beijing clamping down on the illegal opium trade conducted by British merchants. China was defeated and had to pay a hefty indemnity. Desperate for funds, Emperor Daoguang (father of Cixi’s future husband) held back the traditional presents for his sons’ brides – gold necklaces with corals and pearls – and vetoed elaborate banquets for their weddings. New Year and birthday celebrations were scaled down, even cancelled, and minor royal concubines had to subsidise their reduced allowances by selling their embroidery on the market through eunuchs. The emperor himself even went on surprise raids of his concubines’ wardrobes, to check whether they were hiding extravagant clothes against his orders. As part of a determined drive to stamp out theft by officials, an investigation was conducted of the state coffer, which revealed that more “than nine million taels of silver had gone missing. Furious, the emperor ordered all the senior keepers and inspectors of the silver reserve for the previous forty-four years to pay fines to make up the loss – whether or not they were guilty. Cixi’s great-grandfather had served as one of the keepers and his share of the fine amounted to 43,200 taels – a colossal sum, next to which his official salary had been a pittance. As he had died a long time ago, his son, Cixi’s grandfather, was obliged to pay half the sum, even though he worked in the Ministry of Punishments and had nothing to do with the state coffer. After three years of futile struggle to raise money, he only managed to hand over 1,800 taels, and an edict signed by the emperor confined him to prison, only to be released if and when his son, Cixi’s father, delivered the balance. The life of the family was turned upside down. Cixi, then eleven years old, had to take in sewing jobs to earn extra money – which she would remember all her life and would later talk about to her ladies-in-waiting in the court. “As she was the eldest of two daughters and three sons, her father discussed the matter with her, and she rose to the occasion. Her ideas were carefully considered and practical: what possessions to sell, what valuables to pawn, whom to turn to for loans and how to approach them. Finally, the family raised 60 per cent of the sum, enough to get her grandfather out of prison. The young Cixi’s contribution to solving the crisis became a family legend, and her father paid her the ultimate compliment: ‘This daughter of mine is really more like a son!’ Treated like a son, Cixi was able to talk to her father about things that were normally closed areas for women. Inevitably their conversations touched on official business and state affairs, which helped form Cixi’s lifelong interest. Being consulted and having her views acted on, she acquired self-confidence and never accepted the com“common assumption that women’s brains were inferior to men’s. The crisis also helped shape her future method of rule. Having tasted the bitterness of arbitrary punishment, she would make an effort to be fair to her officials.

But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.

I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.

When is thirty is a fond memory, the more days that pass without exercise the worse you feel going back to it. Then too, I'm undisciplined in a way that makes it easier to exercise than to diet, and the running helps keep my weight down.

For those who have dwelt in depression’s dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell’s black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as “the shining world.” There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond despair. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

219. The practice of judging and condemning morally, is the favorite revenge of the intellectually shallow on those who are less so, it is also a kind of indemnity for their being badly endowed by nature, and finally, it is an opportunity for acquiring spirit and becoming subtle—malice spiritualizes. They are glad in their inmost heart that there is a standard according to which those who are over-endowed with intellectual goods and privileges, are equal to them, they contend for the “equality of all before God,” and almost need the belief in God for this purpose.

...Walter, the time has come." "What do you mean, Phyllis?" "For me to meet my bridegroom. The only one I ever loved. One night I'll drop off the stern of the ship. Then, little by little I'll feel his icy fingers creeping into my heart. "...I'll give you away." "What?" "I mean: I'll go with you.

No nos damos cuenta, Mariana, de lo maravilloso que es poderle preguntar a alguien: "¿Te acuerdas?", y notar que sí, que se acuerda. Los recuerdos cultivados a solas forman una madeja embarullada por dentro, enganchada entre pinchos, llegas a no diferenciar lo que te pasó de otros jirones descabalados procedentes de escenas callejeras o del cine; pero lo peor es que, de tanto moverte en esa maraña, el ayer te vampiriza, te enrarece el aire y te tapa la luz del día en que estás viviendo. Es difícil salirse del tumor del pasado dejando indemne el tejido del presente, tan delicado y frágil como un pétalo.

The death knell for silver's monetary role was the end of the Franco-Prussian war, when Germany extracted an indemnity of £200 million in gold from France and used it to switch to a gold standard. With Germany now joining Britain, France, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and others on a gold standard, the monetary pendulum had swung decisively in favor of gold, leading to individuals and nations worldwide who used silver to witness a progressive loss of their purchasing power and a stronger incentive to shift to gold. India finally switched from silver to gold in 1898, while China and Hong Kong were the last economies in the world to abandon the silver standard in 1935.

Cities have characters, pathologies that can make or destroy or infect you, states of mind that run through daily life as surely as a fault line. Chandler’s “mysterious something” was a mood of disenchantment, an intense spiritual malaise that identified itself with Los Angeles at a particular time, what we call noir. On the one hand noir is a narrow film genre, born in Hollywood in the late 1930s when European visual style, the twisted perspectives and stark chiaroscuros of German Expressionism, met an American literary idiom. This fruitful comingling gave birth to movies like Double Indemnity, directed by Vienna-born Billy Wilder and scripted by Raymond Chandler from a James M. Cain novella. The themes — murderous sex and the cool, intricate amorality of money — rose directly from the psychic mulch of Southern California. But L.A. is a city of big dreams and cruelly inevitable disappointments where noir is more than just a slice of cinema history; it’s a counter-tradition, the dark lens through which the booster myths came to be viewed, a disillusion that shadows even the best of times, an alienation that assails the sense like the harsh glitter of mica in the sidewalk on a pitiless Santa Ana day. Noir — in this sense a perspective on history and often a substitute for it — was born when the Roaring Twenties blew themselves out and hard times rushed in; it crystallized real-life events and the writhing collapse of the national economy before finding its interpreters in writers like Raymond Chandler.

If one had to identify the legal system most antithetical to the American one, sharia law fits that bill. Many Westerners might be repulsed by sharia's extraordinarily harsh corporeal punishments for theft (cutting off the hand) and adultery (stoning). And you might think that the lower status of women when it comes to the validity of their legal testimony or their bequeathing rights (half that of men) might be grotesque to Western sensibilities. Surely most Westerners would find it astoundingly cruel and unjust, if not insane, that under sharia law a female rape victim needs the eyewitness testimony of four men to be believed. But sharia law is even more fundamentally opposed to Western legal standards because Islam rejects the Western idea of impartial justice applied fairly regardless of an individual's identity. Under sharia, punishments are applied as a function of the identity of the victim and perpetrator. A Jewish man who kills a Muslin man is judged very differently than a Muslim man who kills a Jewish man. Sharia law specifically states that no retaliation can take place when a Muslim kills a non-Muslim and that indemnities depend on the identities of the parties in question.

Avec le temps, j'ai simplement aperçu que même ceux qui étaient meilleurs que d'autres ne pouvaient s'empêcher aujourd'hui de tuer ou de laisser tuer parce que c'était dans la logique où ils vivaient, et que nous ne pouvions pas faire un geste en ce monde sans risquer de faire mourir. Oui, j'ai continué d'avoir honte, j'ai appris cela, que nous étions tous dans la peste, et j'ai perdu la paix. Je la cherche encore aujourd'hui, essayant de les comprendre tous et de n'être l'ennemi mortel de personne. Je sais seulement qu'il faut faire ce qu'il faut pour ne plus être un pestiféré et que c'est là ce qui peut, seul, nous faire espérer la paix, ou une bonne mort à son défaut. C'est cela qui peut soulager les hommes et, sinon les sauver, du moins leur faire le moins de mal possible et même parfois un peu de bien. Et c'est pourquoi j'ai décidé de refuser tout ce qui, de près ou de loin, pour de bonnes ou de mauvaises raisons, fait mourir ou justifie qu'on fasse mourir. « C'est pourquoi encore cette épidémie ne m'apprend rien, sinon qu'il faut la combattre à vos côtés. Je sais de science certaine (oui, Rieux, je sais tout de la vie, vous le voyez bien) que chacun la porte en soi, la peste, parce que personne, non, personne au monde n'en est indemne. Et qu'il faut se surveiller sans arrêt pour ne pas être amené, dans une minute de distraction, à respirer dans la figure d'un autre et à lui coller l'infection. Ce qui est naturel, c'est le microbe. Le reste, la santé, l'intégrité, la pureté, si vous voulez, c'est un effet de la volonté et d'une volonté qui ne doit jamais s'arrêter.

Gary Cooper called to invite me to a dinner party he was giving for Clark Gable at his house. When I accepted and he asked if I would mind picking up Barbara Stanwyck, I was delighted. I had always thought she was one of the greatest. The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity are two of my favorite films and feature two of the many terrific performances she gave through the years. I arrived at her door promptly at 6:30 P.M., a huge bouquet of pink peonies in hand. The maid said she would be right down, took the flowers, and offered me a glass of champagne. Barbara came down a few minutes later, looking terrific in something silver and slinky. She carried on about the flowers as the maid brought them in and joined me for some champagne. I was anxious to get things off to a good start with the right kind of small talk, but unfortunately I was out of touch with the latest gossip. I asked how and where her husband was. An expletive told me how she felt about her husband: “That son of a bitch ran off with some kraut starlet.” As I struggled to pull my foot out of my mouth, she started to laugh and said, “Don’t worry about it, baby, he’s not worth sweating over,” and the rest of the evening went like gangbusters. We arrived at 7:30 on the dot and were met at the door by Rocky, Mrs. Gary Cooper, who hugged Barbara and said, “He’s going to be so glad to see you.” Cooper and Stanwyck had made a couple of great films together, Meet John Doe and Ball of Fire, the latter for Sam Goldwyn, whom she liked even though she referred to him as “that tough old bastard.” Rocky sent Barbara out to the garden to see Coop, took my arm, and showed me around their lovely home. As we walked into the garden, I spotted him laughing with Barbara. Rocky took me over to meet him. He was tall, lean, warm, and friendly. The thing I remember most about him is the twinkle in his deep blue eyes, which were framed by thick dark lashes. He was a movie star.

As Titanic began production, there was an immediate chemistry between Barbara and myself—a lot of looks across the room. At this point Barbara Stanwyck was a legendary actress, universally respected for her level of craft and integrity. She also had the most valuable thing a performer can have: good taste. Besides a long list of successful bread-and-butter pictures, Barbara had made genuine classics for great directors: The Bitter Tea of General Yen and Meet John Doe for Frank Capra, Stella Dallas for King Vidor, The Lady Eve for Preston Sturges, Ball of Fire for Howard Hawks, and Double Indemnity for Billy Wilder. Barbara carried her success lightly; her attitude was one of utter professionalism and no noticeable temperament. As far as she was concerned, she was simply one of a hundred or so people gathered to make a movie—no more, no less.

The women have to suffer due to nature without compensation or an indemnity.

Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal

In the days after Sedan, Prussian envoys met with the French and demanded a large cash indemnity as well as the cession of Alsace and Lorraine.

uno nunca sale ligero ni indemne de las averiguaciones. Me

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the family feuds of the nobles were beyond control. Revenge was regarded rather as an act of private justice than as a crime. The remotest members of a clan were bound by the obligations of the vendetta, which had its special home in Italy. Its history in the Middle Ages is largely one of family feuds that turned into wars. These ended either by the extermination of one party or by the intervention of the emperor or the church, imposing reconciliation and indemnities.

connoisseurs.

A decision was taken to attach the terrible label ‘regicide’ to those who had been present in the High Court as Charles I’s death sentence was pronounced and from their number to select the death list of seven. Thirty-seven of these men were still alive, and the order went out to sheriffs and other law officers across the country to seize them and seize their property. The seven were deemed to be unpardonable and were wholly ‘excepted’ from the Bill of Indemnity. They could expect the full savagery of a traitor’s death – hanging, castration and disembowelment before the victim was beheaded and the trunk quartered so parts could be displayed across the land.

Elles sont posées là, sur mes cuisses. Quelques minuscules brûlures s'y dévoilent. La peau est crevassée, c'est-à-dire qu'elle a souffert des erreurs et tentatives d'un temps qui n'est plus. Le métacarpe, lui, est indemne. Il bouge nécessairement sous le poids de l'écriture, des rencontres, des fruits que je pèle. [...] Ce sont elles, les mains, que nous brandissons en manifestant, celles qui deviennent poings devant les inégalités, celles qui se nouent devant l'insensé, qui caressent ce qui est possible, celles que des hommes raidissent à défaut de savoir parler. Ce sont elles qui touchent draps, meubles, sucre, chiennes et médicaments. Ce sont elles qui ramènent les genoux contre la poitrine, l'obscurité en un instant, l'enfant perdu, l'encre à la feuille, la conviction à ceux qui doutent. Ce sont elles qui à la fois nourrissent et détruisent l'intégralité de ce qui sait luire. Certains d'entre nous vivront un siècle à n'en connaître que les jeux. Certains d'entre nous ne sauront qu'applaudir. Moi, enfant, je priais.

Hollywood is the single most dangerous force in the history of class struggle.” Or so Osip argued, until he discovered the genre of American movies that would come to be known as film noir. With rapt attention he watched the likes of This Gun for Hire, Shadow of a Doubt, and Double Indemnity. “What is this?” he would ask of no one in particular. “Who is making these movies? Under what auspices?” From one to the next, they seemed to depict an America in which corruption and cruelty lounged on the couch; in which justice was a beggar and kindness a fool; in which loyalties were fashioned from paper, and self-interest was fashioned from steel. In other words, they provided an unflinching portrayal of Capitalism as it actually was. “How did this happen, Alexander? Why do they allow these movies to be made? Do they not realize they are hammering a wedge beneath their own foundation stones?

treaty were lenient compared with those imposed by Germany in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, whereby Russia had been denuded of a third of its population, deprived of half its industrial capacity and nine-tenths of its coal-mines, and subjected to a massive indemnity.

The treaty was finally signed, and the two young princes – Abdul Khaliq, who was eight, and Muizuddin, aged five – handed over to Cornwallis on 18 March 1792. The boys were taken off by elephant to Madras, which they appeared in general to like, though they clearly did not enjoy being made to sit through entire performances of Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus.58 Having created a sensation in Madras society with their dignity, intelligence and politeness, they were sent back two years later when Tipu delivered the final tranche of his indemnity payment.

Somos una especie que partió hace un tiempo del África para explorar mundos nuevos y que ha estado constantemente preguntándose por la naturaleza de las cosas movida por una incesante curiosidad. Nuestra especie no durará mucho, pertenecemos a un género de especies de vida breve; nuestros primos se extinguieron todos y nosotros causamos daño. Los cambios climáticos y medioambientales que hemos provocado han sido brutales y difícilmente tendremos perdón. Para la Tierra será un parpadeo irrelevante y nosotros no saldremos indemnes, tanto más teniendo en cuenta que la opinión pública y la política prefieren ignorar los peligros que estamos corriendo y esconden la cabeza bajo el ala

In an email to Tempest marked “confidential” accompanying the report, Kumar noted that lack of adherence to regulation was only part of the problem. “It appears that some of these issues were apparent over a year ago and I cannot find any documents which sought to address these concerns or resolve the issues.” In closing, he made clear that his ultimate loyalties lay not with the company but with the truth. “I can not allow any information to be used for any dossier unless fully supported by data,” he wrote, adding: “With your permission, I would like to take advice from legal counsel in London as to my current responsibility and indemnity with respect to the above issues.” In response, Tempest assured Kumar that the company would do the right thing. Though the picture was grim, Kumar confided to Thakur that he believed he could fix the problems, if given the authority.

Los padres tienen tantas probabilidades de salir indemnes del tribunal freudiano como las que tenían los acusados en un simulacro de juicio estalinista.

It was a great moral improvement when men ceased to kill or eat their fellowmen, and merely made them slaves. A similar development on a larger scale may be seen today, when a nation victorious in war no longer exterminates the enemy, but enslaves it with indemnities. Once slavery had been established and had proved profitable, it was extended by condemning to it defaulting debtors and obstinate criminals, and by raids undertaken specifically to capture slaves. War helped to make slavery, and slavery helped to make war.

«En cada caso, perdemos un trozo de alma». ¿Y si él ha perdido la suya? ¿Y si esa es la razón por la que de sus palabras no se desprende un atisbo de culpa o remordimientos? Nadie regresa indemne del infierno.

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killed him for the money and the woman. I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman.’ Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity.

States are like gamblers; they lie themselves into believing that they have any amount in their pockets, and when a number turns up for them they think that they have won. Is it possible that any people can show, or will ever be able to show, a gain, whether it be in land, subjects, war indemnity, trade advantages, alliances, or whatever it may be, that will compensate for the losses that every nation has suffered through the time the game has lasted?

Este homem é previdente e antecipa-se, está alerta e conta com o que quase ninguém conta: conta com o que há-de vir e vê o que acontecerá depois, e por isso quando faz qualquer coisa acredita que é justo. Ou talvez não seja assim mas o inverso, talvez tenha boa retórica mental e verbal e actue em tudo sem premeditação, sabendo que encontrará mais tarde o argumento ou o raciocínio adequado para justificar o que terão improvisado o seu gosto e o seu instinto, isto é, para explicar a si mesmo os seus actos e as suas palavras, sabendo que tudo se pode defender e que qualquer convicção contrária pode ser rebatida, a razão pode estar sempre do nosso lado e tudo pode ser revelado quando é acompanhado pela sua exaltação ou a sua desculpa ou pela sua atenuante ou pela sua mera representação, revelar é uma forma de generosidade, tudo pode acontecer e tudo pode ser enunciado e ser aceite, de tudo se pode sair impune ou, ainda mais, indemne, os códigos e mandamentos e leis não se sustêm e são sempre convertíveis em papel molhado, há-de haver sempre alguém que consegue dizer: "Não se aplicam a mim, ou não no meu caso, ou desta vez, embora talvez na próxima sim, se cometer a próxima.

Porque jamás saldría indemne de aquella mirada, y jamás volvería a contemplar un fuego como el que alimentaba a aquellos ojos que ardían para herirme y para curarme a la vez.

Marianne entend cet homme qui l’appelle et elle pleure, traversée par l’émotion que l’on ressent parfois devant ce qui, dans le temps, a survécu indemne, et déclenche la douleur des impossibles retours en arrière

he cared about her. Not in the selfish, adulterous way he did years ago, but with the empathy and dignity she deserved.

Can I be your son, too, and not just my dad’s?” “You already are, Jack. You already are.

whatever you’re afraid of controls you.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace denounced the folly of the peacemakers in trying to extort from Germany an indemnity it could not possibly pay. He foresaw that attempts to make it pay would destroy the economic mechanisms on which the pre-war prosperity of Continental Europe had depended. He predicted a war of vengeance by Germany. There were memorable portraits of the leading peacemakers, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson, though he left out the sketch of Lloyd George on Asquith’s advice.

the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence,

Poor doesn’t just mean finances. It means helpless, powerless, and even hopeless.

No vaya a creer que sus cuadros me dijeran cosas directas, pues en ellos no había ni siquiera figuras humanas, y mucho menos anécdota. Eran naturalezas muertas: una silla al lado de una ventana, un florero. Pero, qué milagro: uno dice "silla" o "ventana" o "reloj", palabras que designan meros objetos de ese frígido e indiferente mundo que nos rodea, y sin embargo de pronto transmitimos algo misterioso e indefinible, algo que es como una clave como un patético mensaje de una profunda región de nuestro ser. Decimos "silla" pero no queremos decir "silla", y nos entienden. O por lo menos nos entienden aquellos a quienes está secretamente destinado el mensaje, críptico, pasando indemne a través de las multitudes indiferentes y hostiles. Así que ese par de zuecos, esa vela, esa silla no quiere decir ni esos zuecos, ni esa vela macilenta, ni aquella silla de paja, sino Van Gogh, Vincent (sobre todo Vincent): su ansiedad, su angustia, su soledad; de modo que son más bien su autorretrato, la descripción de sus ansiedades más profundas y dolorosas. Sirviéndose de aquellos objetos externos e indiferentes, esos objetos de ese mundo rígido y frío que está fuera de nosotros, que acaso estaba antes de nosotros y que muy probablemente seguirá permaneciendo, indiferente y helado, cuando hayamos muerto, como si esos objetos no fueran más que temblorosos y transitorios puentes (como las palabras para el poeta) para salvar el abismo que siempre se abre entre uno y el universo; como si fueran símbolos de aquello profundo y recóndito que refleja; indiferentes y objetivos y grises para los que no son capaces de entender la clave pero cálidos y tensos y llenos de intención secreta para los que la conocen. Porque en realidad esos objetos pintados no son los objetos de aquel universo indiferente sino objetos creados por aquel ser solitario y desesperado, ansioso de comunicarse, que hace con los objetos lo mismo que el alma realiza con el cuerpo: impregnándolo de sus anhelos y sentimientos, manifestándose a través de las arrugas carnales, del brillo de sus ojos, de las sonrisas y de las comisuras de sus labios; como un espíritu que trata de manifestarse (desesperadamente) con el cuerpo ajeno, y a veces groseramente ajeno (...).

Tenía que abstraerse y crear un espacio entre ella y el resto del mundo para conseguir salir indemne.

Jusqu’au jour où cette enfance blessée lui est remontée d’un seul coup. Acide. Elle avait beau mâcher, ruminer, déglutir, ça ne passait plus. Elle croyait qu’elle était quitte, qu’elle avait eu sa dose. Elle croyait qu’elle pouvait s’en tirer comme ça, presque indemne, à peine un peu plus sensible, mais elle n’en finissait plus de faire rouler dans sa bouche ces petits morceaux d’enfance comme des cailloux terreux qu’elle refusait de cracher. Elle ne voulait pas grandir, comment peut-on grandir avec ces blessures à l’intérieur de soi ? Elle voulait combler par le vide ce manque qu’ils avaient creusé en elle, leur faire payer ce dégoût qu’elle avait d’elle-même, cette culpabilité qui la reliait encore à eux. 

Gospel time is our spiritual harvest, and it is notorious folly to sleep or loiter in harvest. The time of the gospel is a time indeed--namely, a time of light, a time of love, a time of life, a time of liberty (Matt. 4:16; 2 Tim. 1:10; Ezek. 16:8; Rom. 5:8; Isa. 61:6; John 8:36). Now, the trumpet of jubilee sounds, and all debts and mortgages may be taken up and released. Here is liberty for the poor captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. 'Tis now an "accepted time," a "day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2), a time to accept or a time to be accepted, a golden and glorious time indeed. Behold, now there is a broad and clear way to His mercy seat. The flaming sword is gone; the partition wall is down; all bars and gates are removed; an act of indemnity is proclaimed; and there is a free admission for all to come and be saved. Pardons are ready (Isa. 55:6-7).

It worried me, this covering of couches. What could be so frightfully dirty that fourteen layers of linens were needed to cover it? Sensing this could be a test, I shifted slightly to see if someone might have placed a pea somewhere under the cushion that I was supposed to feel with my behind. Nothing. I guess I'll never be a princess.

This is the California where it is possible to live and die without ever eating an artichoke, without ever meeting a Catholic or a Jew. This is the California where it is easy to Dial-A-Devotion, but hard to buy a book. This is the country in which a belief in the literal interpretation of Genesis has slipped imperceptibly into a belief in the literal interpretation of Double Indemnity, the country of the teased hair and the Capris and the girls for whom all life’s promise comes down to a waltz-length white wedding dress and the birth of a Kimberly or a Sherry or a Debbi and a Tijuana divorce and a return to hairdressers’ school.

The first thing you'll find, when the Peace Conference gets to work, will be that we shall have to help Germany onto her feet again so that she can be punished in an orderly way. We shall have to feed her and admit her to commerce so that she can pay her indemnities - we shall have to police her cities to prevent revolution from burning her up - and the upshot of it all will be that men will have fought the most terrible war in history, and endured nameless horrors, for the privilege of nursing their enemy back to health.

If the heathen are no longer brought by compulsion into the light, we make them pay a heavy indemnity for their privilege of sitting in darkness, and, whenever their opposition to the dissemination of Christian teaching amongst them emerges from quiescence into activity, a warship is ready to bombard their coasts while troops are at hand to annex a province.

Germany only paid, or was able to pay, the indemnities later extorted because the United States was profusely lending money to Europe, and especially her. In fact, during the three years 1926 to 1929 the United States was receiving back in the form of debt-installment indemnities from all quarters about one-fifth of the money which she was lending to Germany with no chance of repayment. However, everybody seemed pleased and appeared to think this might go on for ever.

I tried begging. I tried standing up to do it, at first, but soon learned it worked better the dirtier you looked, the lower you crouched, and the further you stretched out your hand. The coves weren't giving, you see, they were buying. What they paid for was humiliation. Yours, an indemnity against theirs.

6 1The Ark of the Lord remained in the territory of the Philistines seven months.* 2Then the Philistines summoned the priests and the diviners and asked, “What shall we do about the Ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it off to its own place.” 3They answered, “If you are going to send the Ark of the God of Israel away, do not send it away without anything; you must also pay an indemnity to Him. Then you will be healed, and *He will make Himself known to you; otherwise His hand will not turn away from you.”-a 4They asked, “What is the indemnity that we should pay to Him?” They answered, “Five golden hemorrhoids and five golden mice, corresponding to the number of lords of the Philistines; for the same plague struck all of you* and your lords. 5You shall make figures of your hemorrhoids and of the mice that are ravaging your land; thus you shall honor the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lighten the weight of His hand upon you and your gods and your land.

Half a world away, on the same Friday, the Chamber of Deputies in France opened debate on paying the United States a debt of 25 million francs (about $5 million) as an indemnity for French damage to American shipping during the Napoleonic wars. France had agreed to pay the money under an 1831 treaty, but after four days of consideration, by a margin of eight, France declined to honor its obligations.

Toute erreur doctrinale s’accompagne d’une erreur psychologique à l’égard de ceux qui en sont indemnes : l’athéisme par exemple se prend volontiers pour un héroïsme moral; il ne peut concevoir de théisme libre de toute faiblesse, de tout désir sentimental. Suspicion injuste, car on peut tout admettre par sentimentalité, l’inexistence de Dieu aussi bien que le contraire.

With rapt attention he watched the likes of This Gun for Hire, Shadow of a Doubt, and Double Indemnity.

La rue fait de chaque journée une suite de questions piège, et chaque réponse incorrecte peut provoquer une raclée, une balle dans la peau, une grossesse non désirée. Personne n'en sort indemne. Pourtant, la chaleur qui s dégage de ce danger permanent, de ce flirt constant avec la mort, est excitante.

In 1902, China rediscovered America. The Qing court sent its first group of government-sponsored students to the United States since the Yung Wing mission. Three years later, Chinese students finally gained entry to West Point. The first group of Boxer Indemnity students came in 1909. By the 1920s, the United States was hosting more Chinese students—one-third of them women—than all the nations of Europe combined. For the next four decades, China would send more students to America than any other country except Canada. Chinese students were present on almost every campus of every major university in the nation.

Uno cae a setenta metros de profundidad y sale indemne (Wim van Est, 1951), otro (Emilio Richli, esprínter suizo, 1934) se cae en un sur place y se muere. Es esta imprevisibilidad lo que hace que el miedo a la caída no abandone nunca a los ciclistas.

In all Indo-European languages, words for “debt” are synonymous with those for “sin” or “guilt,” illustrating the links between religion, payment and the mediation of the sacred and profane realms by “money.” For example, there is a connection between money (German Geld), indemnity or sacrifice (Old English Geild), tax (Gothic Gild) and, of course, guilt.41