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  • All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. -- Jim C. Hines
  • Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. -- John Shadegg
  • There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. -- Claude Vorilhon
  • There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. -- Stephen Covey
  • If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution. -- Greg Abbott
  • The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about. -- Charles James
  • 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 was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations. -- Shakira
  • In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. -- Jan Egeland
  • What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. -- Carlos Fuentes
  • Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be. -- Vladimir Putin
  • In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations. -- Roy Barnes
  • 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
  • There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. -- Kurt Huber
  • In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • 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
  • 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
  • When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations. -- Julian Assange
  • Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. -- Lillian Hellman
  • In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. -- Ben Shapiro
  • Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy. -- Mike Quigley
  • There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution. -- Edward Snowden
  • The only sins are violations of Love. -- Vanna Bonta
  • All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • I see people detained for simple INS violations. -- Sibel Edmonds
  • Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. -- Curt Weldon
  • Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. -- Mary Robinson
  • Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them. -- Brendan Sullivan
  • In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
  • Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people. -- Bryant McGill
  • Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? -- Daniel Suarez
  • Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions. -- John Kessel
  • The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. -- Nelson Mandela
  • The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government). -- Stefan Molyneux
  • 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
  • Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law. -- Cass Sunstein
  • For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country. -- Evan Osnos
  • The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way." -- George Carlin
  • Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there. -- Jennifer Armintrout
  • For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.' -- Alex Pareene
  • We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! -- Widad Akrawi
  • If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all. -- Thomas Sowell
  • The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. -- Judith Lewis Herman
  • In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws. -- Russell Pearce
  • It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel. -- Edward Kennedy
  • I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance. -- Yoweri Museveni
  • In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen? -- Jamaica Kincaid
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