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Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. -- Emanuel Celler
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit. -- Lincoln Steffens
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. -- Thurgood Marshall
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
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. -- Matt Gonzalez
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. -- Dorothy Thompson
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy. -- Lisa Anderson
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. -- George Eliot
Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws. -- Kevin Bleyer
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. -- Xun Zi
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it? -- William Allingham
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. -- Xun Zi
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. -- Paul Harris
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself. -- Eric Metaxas
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth. -- Lou Engle
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress. -- Isocrates
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness. -- Ronald Reagan
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding. -- J. Spencer Kinard
In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave. -- Stefan Zweig
There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also going through travail to give birth to the messengers of power who are sent to prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom by preaching the gospel of the kingdom throughout the earth. -- Rick Joyner
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely. -- Brock Chisholm
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. -- Robert Kennedy
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness. -- J.S.B. Morse
Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration. -- Roscoe Pound
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. -- Toni Cade Bambara
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness. -- Kristin Cashore
Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. -- lecrae
To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border." -- Jeff Sessions
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. -- Alfred Austin
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesuswill abandon him with their lives. -- Brandon Andress
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Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them. -- Jeff Sessions
Ending the lawlessness at the border? I don't believe a fourth-generation Hispanic thinks that's evil. I don't think an African American thinks there's anything wrong with protecting their jobs for a change. -- Jeff Sessions
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him. -- Jeff Sessions
Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance? -- Stephanie Barron
Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law. -- Ray Comfort
The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there. -- Donald Trump

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