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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. -- Orson Welles
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. -- Stephen Colbert
I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law. -- Gary Gilmore
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -- Ayn Rand
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law. -- Robert Frost
I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them. -- Richelle Mead
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare? -- Laozi
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. -- Tom Tancredo
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. -- Georges Bataille
After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere -- Julius Caesar
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy. -- Jennifer Crusie
Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs. -- Christine Quinn
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
What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets... -- Ernestine Rose
You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed. -- Rodney King
I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing. -- George Jung
One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. -- Sam Harris
We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now. -- Paul Watson
By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.' 'I shall be delighted.' 'You don't mind breaking the law?' 'Not in the least.' 'Nor running a chance of arrest?' 'Not in a good cause.' 'Oh, the cause is excellent!' 'Then I am your man.' 'I was sure that I might rely on you. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law. -- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal. -- Malcolm X
We don't break the law. -- Kenneth Lay
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. -- C. S. Lewis
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. -- Scott Turow
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. -- Louise Mensch
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. -- Mason Cooley
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. -- Grover Cleveland
How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on? -- Ross MacDonald
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. -- Al Gore
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. -- Julius Caesar
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. -- Pete Earley
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. -- Thomas Sowell
You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs. -- Elizabeth Warren
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. -- Stephen Hawking
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit. -- Steven Hatfill
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up? -- William Golding
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. -- Duff Goldman
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own. -- Myrtle Reed
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law. -- Kenneth Lay
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God. -- Andy Stanley
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process. -- Ravi Zacharias
I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids, -- Jennifer Garner
I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them. -- Ice T
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals. -- Ashly Lorenzana
I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment. -- Benjamin Watson
[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]MARLEEN WALKER: Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.TIZIANO CONTI: Am I breaking the law right now? -- Merce Cardus
If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state. -- Philip Berrigan

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