Violation Quotes

• All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Benefits, Libertarian

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Aquariums, Essentials, Privacy

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

  Erich Fromm

  Integrity, Mean, Identity

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.92, Lantern Books

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• The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

  Henry Miller

  Evil, Progress, Different

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  "News From Cnn" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Expectations, Littles

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• If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

  Adam Schiff

  Children, Giving, Diversity

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• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Gijs de Vries

  Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  Earl Warren

  Men, Law, Liberty

  "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas", (p. 514), 1980.

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• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Religious, Divine, Penalties

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Law, Nicaragua

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• And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Government, Bread

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". Interview with Rick Wiles, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Defense, Arms, Violence

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

  Joseph Barbera

  Years, Rejection, Despite

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Abuse

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• I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

  Lech Walesa

  Believe, Privacy, I Believe

  "Lech Walesa: Tech Freedom Fighter". Interview with Julia Scheeres, www.wired.com. June 19, 2002.

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• To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

  Helen Dunmore

  Trying, Individual, Terrible

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• In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

  Pete McCloskey

  Honesty, Men, Leader

  "Pete McCloskey Talks about GOP Corruption - IV". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.scoop.co.nz. March 1, 2006.

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• There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Mistake, Intolerance, Ancestor

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• There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

  Kurt Huber

  Law, Justice, Cowardice

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• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

  Charles James

  Past, Cures, Standards

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