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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year. -- Joseph Barbera
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. -- Benjamin Tucker
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. -- James T. Walsh
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. -- Bianca Jagger
I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? -- Adam Schiff
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. -- Jeremy Rifkin
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. -- Barney Frank
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. -- Thomas Jefferson
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. -- Ron Paul
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. -- Sharron Angle
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. -- Nicole Kidman
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. -- Henry Miller
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. -- John Amery
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights. -- George W. Norris
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. -- William Blackstone
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. -- John Bruton
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time. -- Nicole Kidman
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights -- Hideki Tojo
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. -- Earl Warren
Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Violation is a synonym for intercourse. -- Andrea Dworkin
I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good. -- Lech Walesa
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. -- Gordon Allport
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. -- Dave Eggers
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law. -- Ban Ki-moon
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution. -- Laurence Tribe
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. -- A. S. Byatt
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. -- Hideki Tojo
For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion. -- Jamaica Kincaid
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender. -- Miroslav Volf
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. -- Max Weber
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation. -- Caroline Knapp
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. -- J. G. Ballard
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER. -- Bill Murray
Tragedy is the violation of love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Abortion is in violation of God-given life. -- Richard Halverson
Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth. -- Suzy Kassem
Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. -- Dan Farmer
Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. -- Helen Dunmore
I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution -- Saxby Chambliss
When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. -- John Irving
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. -- Charles Simmons
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. -- Edward Gibbon
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. -- Carol Bellamy
You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space. -- Jane Goodall
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation. -- Donald Alexander
Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine. -- Ravi Zacharias
Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. -- Dana Gould
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect. -- Georges Bataille
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. -- James Madison
The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen. -- Stuart Chase
If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a violation of my rights, -- Mu Sochua
It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay. -- Hillary Clinton
Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution. -- Roy Moore
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. -- Gordon Allport
Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture. -- Henry R Brandt
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. -- Anne Lamott
The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet. -- Junot Diaz
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. -- Walter Savage Landor
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth. -- Jimmy Carter
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms. -- Fethullah Gulen
Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you. -- Sam Storms
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. -- Andrea Dworkin
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. -- G. Edward Griffin
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. -- Gail Caldwell
Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation. -- Les Miles
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution. -- Wayne Dyer
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. -- Nancy K. Miller
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. -- Rand Paul
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. -- Thomas Sowell
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. -- Octavio Paz
Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. -- Franjo Tudjman
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible. -- Erich Fromm
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. -- Wesley Clark
I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation. -- Roger Federer
[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. -- Alexander Hamilton
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury -- Benjamin Tucker
A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors? -- James Lee Burke
Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for. -- Leon Panetta
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. -- Paul Watson
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. -- Donald Trump
The FBI had a right to review that. And they did and they found Hillary Clinton not in any criminal violation. -- Chris Matthews
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. -- Ayn Rand
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. -- James Cronin
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. -- Rand Paul
Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. -- Ayn Rand
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -- Michelle Bachelet
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ... -- Angelina Grimke
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. -- Ana Castillo
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. -- Al Gore
Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. -- Jose Maria Aznar
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. -- Don DeLillo
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. -- Thomas Jefferson
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. -- Pope John Paul II
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. -- Charles Bukowski
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief. -- Ben Shapiro
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything...it amounts to...a gross violation of human liberty. -- Tibor R. Machan
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk. -- Emily Yoffe
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean? -- Phil Klay
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law. -- Vladimir Putin
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite. -- Lee Carroll
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
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness. -- John Ortberg
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States. -- Ronald Reagan
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat. -- George Bernard Shaw

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