Quotes about Violation

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Human - Law - Violation

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Advantage - Anger - Arrogance - Defiance - Judging - Law - Opinion - Practice - Reject - Violation

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Critic

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Knowledge - Observation - Violation - Wisdom

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Miracle - Order - Violation - Whole

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Politics - Religion - Violation - Willing

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Excellence - Giving - Habit - Morals - Violation - Virtue

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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Crime - Law - Morals - State - Violation

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Identity - Integrity - Meaning - Violation - Willing

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Equality - Mindset - Possession - Protecting - Right - Violation - Willing

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Guarding - Making - Ownership - Reaching - Security - Violation - Willing

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Maximilien Robespierre

Actor, Leader, Lawyer

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Essence - Law - Man - Right - Unjust - Violation

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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Economist

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Employment - Expectation - Follower - Loss - Merchant - Policy - Price - Punishment - Reduction - Unfairness - Violation

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

Commanding - Destroying - Doubt - Leaving - Man - Mastering - Original - Sin - Slavery - Violation - World

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Politics - Religion - Violation - Willing

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Economy - Frustration - Law - Liberty - Violation

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Escape - Fixing - Imagination - Law - Phenomena - Reality - Simple - Violation - Weird

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Joan of Arc

Martyr

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

Calling - Heavens - Key - Taking - Violation

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Actions - Constitution - Force - Government - Violation

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Law - Thinking - Violation

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Actions - Equality - Right - Violation - Willing

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