Quotes About Compensation

Union Bank of Switzerland in 1999 by which the bank agreed to pay $1.25 billion into a fund administered by a U.S. District Court: $800 million for restitution of dormant bank accounts; $100 million for compensation for looted assets; and $325 million for payments to former slave laborers at Swiss-owned companies in occupied Europe or at German firms that had put their revenue in Swiss banks and for refugees mistreated by the Swiss.

These deals allowed Switzerland to seize the heirless Swiss assets of dead Polish and Hungarian citizens, most of whom were Jews, as compensation for the nationalization of Swiss property in these newly communist states.

The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything. He would not go further than that. Still, the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest.

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

If a manís ox injures his neighborís ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.

If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.

If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.