In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so. — Louis XIV
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette. — Judith Martin
He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken. — Bulgarian Proverbs
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. — Shoshana Zuboff
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. — Niccolo Machiavelli
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. — Sophocles
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Eliel Saarinen
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. — Che Guevara
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce
Short Breach Quotes
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back. — R. M. Williams
May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! — Stephen King
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. — William Shakespeare
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. — Patrick Stewart
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate. — Rupert Brooke
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. — George Arthur Buttrick
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. — Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. — Rocky Graziano
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. — Waris Dirie
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen
Breach Image Quotes
Trust Breach Quotes
The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust. — Louis D. Brandeis
The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave. — Alan Curbishley
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government. — John F. Kerry
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities. — Mark Shields
To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity. — Pope Pius X
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. — Hillary Clinton
We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan. — Irving Townsend
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them. — George Carlin
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George! — William Shakespeare
I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached. — Sayings
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. — Paul Berg
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. — Myrna Loy
We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment. — Mahatma Gandhi
Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible. — Swami Vivekananda
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. — Hugo Black
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands. — Charles Hummel
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. — John Donne
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. — Cesare Pavese
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene. — Maxime Weygand
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts. — Christopher Paolini
The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure. — Matt Blaze
Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence? — Teresa of Avila
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness. — Elisabeth Elliot
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger. — William Shakespeare
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. — William Hazlitt
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
We can reveal that John's 85
That's a well known fact
Telling Kathy's age would be a breach
Of the Official Secrets Act — John Walter Bratton
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. — Judge Learned Hand
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. — Amy Vanderbilt
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. — Freda Adler
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