Defensor dativo em alemão: Pflichtverteidiger (ein Verteidiger, der vom Vorsitzenden bestellt ist, falls der Angeklagte sich nicht selbst einen Rechtsanwalt als sogenannten Wahlverteidiger gesucht hat oder einen Strafverteidiger nicht bezahlen kann.)

Als Pflichtverteidiger bezeichnet man im deutschen Strafprozess einen durch das Gericht dem Beschuldigten beigeordneten Verteidiger. Im schweizerischen und im österreichischen Strafprozessrecht besteht ein ähnliches Rechtsinstitut mit der amtlichen Verteidigung bzw. dem Amtsverteidiger.

Hobbes - Leviathan, Part I, Chapter XIII

Hobbes on the state of nature:

In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Jorge Luís Borges on Dictatorship and Immortality

There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.

"The Immortal", § IV, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. 

Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters (c.1946) 

Quotes from "In Time"

Is it stealing if it's already stolen?

Will Salas: How can you live with yourself watching people die right next to you? 

Sylvia Weis: You don't watch... you close your eyes. 

Philippe Weis: Of course, some think what we have is unfair. The time difference between zones. 
Will Salas: I've heard that. 
Philippe Weis: But, hasn't evolution always been unfair? It's always been survival of the fittest. This is merely Darwinian capitalism. Natural selection. 
Will Salas: Absolutely. The strong survive.

Will Salas: Do you know how much good it could do?

Philippe Weis: Do you know how much harm it could do? Try to understand that even if you gave a year to a million people you're just prolonging their agony.

Sylvia Weis: We're prolonging their lives.

Philippe Weis: Flooding the wrong zone with a million years: it could cripple the system.

Will Salas: Let's hope so.

Sylvia Weis: We're not meant to live like this. We're not meant to live forever. Although I do wonder, father, if you´ve ever lived a day in your life.

Philippe Weis: Is that so? You might have set the balance for a generation... two. But don't fool yourselves, because nothing will change. Because in the end everyone wants to live forever. They all think they have a chance of immortality, even though all the evidence is against it. They all think they will be the exception. But the truth is: For a few to remain immortal, many must die. 

Will Salas: No one should be immortal, if even one person has to die.