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Quotes About Violation

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually know the emotional costs of keeping a secret until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.
~ bell hooks
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
~ John McAfee
Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, "Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star."…However, whether the president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant for our support of him. —Robert Jeffress
~ Stuart Stevens
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.
~ Susan Sontag
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.
~ Susan Sontag
Hay algo depredador en la acción de hacer una foto. Fotografiar personas es violarlas, pues se las ve como jamás se ven a sí mismas, se las conoce como nunca pueden conocerse; transforma a las personas en objetos que pueden ser poseídos simbólicamente. Así como la cámara es una sublimación del arma, fotografiar a alguien es cometer un asesinato sublimado, un asesinato blando, digno de una época triste, atemorizada.
~ Susan Sontag
And they didn't think to tell me they were using something that might not work?" Margie felt dizzy with rage. It blew her mind that no one had bothered to explain this to her. It was a violation of a different kind, a complete disregard for her as a person.
~ Susan Wiggs
The emotional toll itself was exhausting. Her dreams were haunted by visions of the rape and its aftermath, the violation of everything that made her human.
~ Susan Wiggs
I have tried to communicate my ideas in a language that preserves connections, a language that is faithful both to the dispassionate, reasoned traditions of my profession and to the passionate claims of people who have been violated and outraged. I have tried to find a language that can withstand the imperatives of doublethink and allows all of us to come a little closer to facing the unspeakable.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!
~ Julia Golding
Shocking many, Puritans wore hats in church (following Jewish practice), refused to bow or kneel during worship (which they saw as a violation of the third commandment), and allowed pigs and chickens in the church, and some of them didn't even know the Lord's Prayer.
~ Eve LaPlante
Every diet violation, every eating situation that feels out of control lays the foundation for the "diet mentality," brick by brick and diet by diet.
~ Evelyn Tribole
Mientras más se prohíbe, menos se cumple.
~ Fernando Vallejo
The man went back to reading the news on the screen: 'Three arrested for virus violation' … 'PM hosts Allied Security Talks', Jake read.
~ Fiona Shaw
It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
All suffering comes from the violation of intuition
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Try to imagine a form of labor imposed by force, that is not a violation of liberty; a transmission of wealth imposed by force, that is not a violation of property. If you cannot succeed in reconciling this, you are bound to conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The Union is a Union of States founded upon Compact. How is it to be supposed that when different parties enter into a compact for certain purposes either can disregard one provision of it and expect others to observe the rest?... A bargain broken on one side is broken on all sides." (Daniel Webster, Capon Springs, 1851)
~ Boston T. Party
Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.
~ Marvin Ammori
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed
~ Solomon Short
We maintain that when a woman is violated while her soul admits no consent to the iniquity, but remains inviolably chaste, the sin is not hers, but his who violates her.
~ St. Augustine
There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.
~ P. J. O'Rourke