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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. -- Theodore Parker
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. -- T. S. Eliot
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. -- Lydia M. Child
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -- Luther Burbank
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. -- Jack London
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. -- Julian Assange
Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis. -- Larry David
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. -- Melody Beattie
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. -- Raymond Chandler
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. -- Marquis de Lafayette
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. -- Jimmy Carter
Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries. -- Ron Wyden
No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do. -- Donald Wuerl
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. -- Dan Savage
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
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. -- James Inhofe
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations. -- Lysander Spooner
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people. -- Hassan Rouhani
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding? -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves. -- Mark Skousen
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. -- Charles Duhigg
Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes. -- Nicki Minaj
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. -- Trent Lott
Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. -- William Eckhardt
Those who enter the country illegally violate the law. -- George W. Bush
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules. -- Bernard Madoff
Together we shared a bond not even death would violate. -- Dee Remy
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? -- Ramsey Clark
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law. -- Evan Esar
A license to practice law is not a license to violate it. -- Loretta Lynch
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws. -- Bryant McGill
You can't violate someone's trust and expect there to be no consequences. -- Susane Colasanti
He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it -- T. S. Eliot
It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous. -- Dana Milbank
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring. -- Alexandre Dumas
The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. -- Robin Williams
The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate. -- Howard Tayler
People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings. -- Max Anders
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. -- Alain de Botton
It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success. -- Donald Maass
I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm. -- Lee Krasner
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
STOP AT NOTHING TO GET THE BEST WORK THAT YOU CAN GET. BETRAY, VIOLATE, CAUSE ENORMOUS HARM. -- Joe Frank
What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star -- Emily Dickinson
Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves. -- David Simon
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. -- Barack Obama
[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn`t violate the Constitution. -- Chuck Todd
The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law. -- William K. Black
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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. -- Nancy K. Miller
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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself. -- Wernher von Braun
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Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. -- Erich Fromm
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. -- Neal Stephenson
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. -- Teresa of Avila
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. -- Jimenez Lai
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow. -- Len Wein
The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others. -- Chico Xavier
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. -- Enver Hoxha
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. -- John O. Brennan
The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill. -- Steve Forbes
The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards. -- Stella Young
I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way. -- Jimmy Carter
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. -- George Bernard Shaw
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. -- Mitt Romney
It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. -- William Eckhardt
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. -- Daniel Kahneman
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. -- George Crabbe
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. -- Leopoldo Lopez
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. -- Shirin Ebadi
They [the United States] violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when faced by resistance they call it terrorism. -- Osama bin Laden
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. -- Barbara Jordan
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution. -- James Bovard
Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law, something which we don't do too much anymore. -- Donald Trump
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... -- Susan Sontag
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them. -- Eric Schmidt
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world. -- Ai Yazawa
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence. -- Norm MacDonald
Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice. -- Ann Veneman
If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic. -- Toba Beta
He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said. -- Erich Segal
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time. -- Bernard Madoff
To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated. -- Loretta Lynch
The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."(Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) -- Raymond Chandler
You can't 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. -- Jimmy Carter
We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way. -- Hilary Liftin
George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you? -- Greg Giraldo
I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die. -- Huey Long
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. -- Ulysses S. Grant
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. -- Sheldon Richman
Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used. -- Eric Holder
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God. -- Theodore Parker
A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics? -- George Carlin
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring. -- Edward Snowden
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship. -- Mas Oyama
Trade wars arent started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another countrys industries. -- Ron Wyden
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ... -- Alexandra David-Neel
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings. -- Gary Kinnaman
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. -- Joseph Butler
We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice. -- Claire Wolfe
Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life. -- Jan C. Ting
By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law. -- Guru Nanak
It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity. -- Andrew Linzey
when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same. -- John F. Kennedy
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are. -- Isaac Asimov
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly. -- Stefan Molyneux
You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are. -- Benjamin Hoff
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! -- Jerome Richardson
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

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