Violation Quotes

• 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

  Rights, Benefits, Libertarian

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• 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

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Bread, Protection

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Uganda, Rights

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. May 31, 2004.

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• 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

  Clothes, Support, Brooklyn

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• 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

  War, Rights, Law

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Men, Law, Habeas Corpus

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• 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

  Years, Law, Three

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• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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• More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

  Holly Hunter

  Real, Cameras, Tvs

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Justice

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• There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Talking, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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• In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

  David Kay

  Iraq, Groups, Done

  "Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing". www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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• Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a street thug. I mean, Saddam Hussein wrote the book on Human rights violations.

  Curt Weldon

  Book, Rights, Hussein

  "CNN Live Sunday", www.cnn.com. February 1, 2004.

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• Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

  John Shadegg

  Law, Gambling, Target

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• I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.

  Bo Gritz

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• 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

  Fighting, Intellectual, Working Together

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• Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Domestic Violence

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• Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Rights, People, Feelings

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• 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

  Rights, Japan, Causes

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• 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

  Law, Creating, United States

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• 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

  Law, Community, Property

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.206, Oxford University Press

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