Violate Quotes

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit.

If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

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.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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

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.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Each instrument has something to say to you.

It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go.

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.