Literary notes about indemnity (AI summary)
The term "indemnity" has been employed in literature both as a technical financial concept and as a symbol of broader moral and political principles. In works such as Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace, indemnity is frequently discussed in the context of international treaties and reparations—its application ranges from considerations of whether financial settlements should be imposed ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) to comparisons of war-induced liabilities ([6], [7]). Historical texts like those of Edmund Luce and Napoleon also refer to indemnities as concrete sums to be paid, emphasizing its role in the mechanics of peace and conflict resolution ([8], [9], [10]). At the same time, philosophers like Rousseau and literary figures such as Poe have invoked indemnity to highlight moral or existential deficits, suggesting that some wrongs may leave one beyond the scope of any human compensation ([11], [12]). This dual usage demonstrates how "indemnity" has served not only as a practical instrument in economic and legal discourse but also as a potent metaphor for justice and rectification in the broader cultural imagination ([13], [14]).
- He himself did not believe in hanging the Kaiser or in the wisdom or the possibility of a great indemnity.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - This is without allowing anything for the payment of the indemnity.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - We in Great Britain had not based our financial arrangements on any expectations of an indemnity.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - I have heard it suggested that the indemnity might be paid to a great extent in potash and the like.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - But he did not trouble his head to understand either the indemnity or poor M. Klotz's overwhelming financial difficulties.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - Yet victorious France must pay her friends and Allies more than four times the indemnity which in the defeat of 1870 she paid Germany.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - [136] Bulgaria is to pay an indemnity of $450,000,000 by half-yearly instalments, beginning July 1, 1920.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - 16-22 The terms of peace were (i) Restoration of all conquests, (ii) Surrender of 80 ships and of all prisoners, (iii) Indemnity of 3000 talents.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - Bonaparte suggests that Genoa should pay fifteen millions indemnity for the frigates and vessels taken in the port.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - Rome availed herself of the distress of Carthage to extort the cession of Sardinia, and raised the war indemnity by 1200 talents.’—Ihne.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - He can procure indemnity from quarters.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - They offer not only indemnity, but rewards, to such of the persons themselves that are so marked, if they will act against their countrymen.
— from Utopia by Saint Thomas More