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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate. -- Eddie Van Halen
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. -- Orrin Hatch
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? -- James Madison
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy. -- Ward Churchill
In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products. -- Bob Ney
We go after unlawful activities. -- Paul Watson
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. -- Frederick Douglass
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. -- George Bernard Shaw
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person -- Robert Kiyosaki
If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law. -- Tim Soutphommasane
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them. -- John Locke
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. -- John Locke
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.] -- Ovid
[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention. -- Chris Matthews
There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment. -- M. Russell Ballard
He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful. -- Muhammad
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. -- Oscar Wilde
I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today. -- Ehren Watada
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. -- John Locke
The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered. -- Lilias Trotter
Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent. -- Orson Pratt
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. -- Philip Sidney
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureÂ?its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. -- Charlotte Bronte
I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something. -- Judd Apatow
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation. -- John Hawkins
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise. -- Preet Bharara
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights. -- Lysander Spooner
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense. -- Thomas Aquinas
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. -- Brian Crozier
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. -- Elbert Hubbard
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. -- Aristotle
These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country. -- Mike Lee
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one. -- Margaret Sanger
[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional. -- Edward Snowden
O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune. -- Ayisha Tabbassum
[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men. -- Eusebius
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right. -- Potter Stewart
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad... -- Abdul Kalam
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful. -- Henry Latham Doherty
I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man. -- Pope Leo XIII
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered. -- Jane Porter

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