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• I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Giving, Selling

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• Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
  What justifies the homicide when he dies?

  Masta Killa

  Rap, Penalties, Homicide

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• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

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• The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, People, Jerusalem

  "Iron Wall". Book by Avi Shlaim, p. 25, 2000.

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• Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, slash benefits and put single mothers into hostels instead of giving them council flats. Finally, if we chucked out all the illegal immigrants and asylum seekers there would be enough jobs for everyone.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Mother, Jobs

  "Sneijder's Hannibal Lecter impression, AVB tells Cole to cut out the fags and Ken Bates' Daily Mail-esque rant". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Issues, People, Immigration

  "They Are Our Children Now" by Fred Lundgren, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2014.

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• He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

  John Irving

  Self, Nurse, Abortion

  "The Cider House Rules". Book by John Irving, 1985.

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• She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Boys, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.29, Macmillan

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• People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

  Wendell Berry

  Lonely, Hate, Drug Use

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.61, Counterpoint

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• You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

  Zadie Smith

  Mean, Feels

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• Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

  Banksy

  Wall, Party, Bus Stops

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• Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Community, Drug, Tvs

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.37, Vintage

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• Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Law, Broken

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• It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

  Wallace Stegner

  Mistake, Judging, Way

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.12, Modern Library

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• A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Be Good, Humans, Persons

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• What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, People, Trying

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• [Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Clubs, Would Be

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• He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Singing, Centaurs

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• Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

  Stephen King

  Powerful, Drug, World

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Cells, Two

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• Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Religious, Children, Couple

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Law, Practice, Jail

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, People, Liberty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

  Dennis Hastert

  Organization, Drug, Liberty

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