Unlawful Quotes - Page 2

• The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sight, Add, Covenant

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.130

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• I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Powerful, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• 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

  People, United States, Natural

  Ward Churchill's Statment, www.denverpost.com. June 8, 2005.

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• 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

  Science, Winning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Graphic Arts Books

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• These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Special, Immigration

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  Eusebius

  Christian, Men, Law

  "The Proof of the Gospel: Being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cæsarea".

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• The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

  Antonin Scalia

  Opportunity, Monopoly Power, Competition

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• I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Heart, America

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• Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Blood, Darkness

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Bird, Racing, Pigeons

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  God, Eye, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Famous women”

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• [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

  Nsa, Trying, Encryption

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• While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Loss, Fire

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

  Margaret Sanger

  Exceed, Millions

  Woman and the New Race ch. 14 (1920)

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• Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.

  Chris Christie

  Choices, Remember, Clinton

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• 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

  Ideas, Rocks, Hands

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Waiting

  Source: russialist.org

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• The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

  Brian Crozier

  Mean, Government, Subversion

  Brian Crozier (1993). “Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Men, People, Liberty

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• I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Son, Iraq, Texas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, Time, Teaching

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• Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Religion, Atheism

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• The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

  Aristotle

  Choices, Abortion, Alive

  Aristotle (1944). “Politics”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’ If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles.

  Alberto J. Mora

  Men, Rights, Law

  "The Memo". Interview with Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. February 27, 2006.

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• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

  Lactantius

  Animal, Men, Law

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