Quotes About Violation

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

Nearly seventy Democratic lawmakers refused to attend Trump's inauguration, an unprecedented violation of democratic etiquette that would have provoked massive media outrage had Republicans done it to, say, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Violate conventions and you are marked as an outsider. A rude outsider, at that.

You build up expectations of behavior based upon prior experience, and if the items with which you interact fail to live up to expectations, that is a violation of trust, for which you assign blame, which can soon lead to anger.

Danger awaits those who deliberately violate the frames of a culture.

If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.

But something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries of the garden, and boundaries, especially when they are an outgrowth of something as profound as the garden with all its holy restrictions and admonitions, must be violated.

How can she eat this fish, cooling on a slab of marble? And yet the fish, too, motionless as it is, and dismantled from its bones, and fleeced of its silver skin, has never been so completely alone as it is now: violated in a final manner and regarded with a weary eye by this woman who has made the latest mistake of her day and done this to it.

I do not believe that the laws of nature have ever been violated, for this would be to believe that God who dwells in nature and animates it has violated the laws of his own being.

Booker Sistrunk sat awkwardly with his hands behind him and continued the mouthing: "You oughtta be ashamed of yourself, treating a brother like this." "The white guy's gettin' the same treatment," Ozzie said. "You're violating my civil rights." "And you're violatin' mine with your mouth. Now shut up or I'll lock you under the jail. We got a little basement down there.

... 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.

The truth is our disconnection with Earth translates into a kind of disrespect of the feminine. How far can you go in violating the mother that gave you life? As long as the feminine is diminished the connection between us and the Earth will always be underscored by a big question mark. We have abused the Earth so much that we don't know which direction to go. We must wonder about this increasing masculinity that is translated in terms of repeated violence or love of it.

that rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

The violation of the inner person is the greatest territorial crime of all.

if anyone comes into my domain without explicit permission, I'm going to impale you in a way that will give you the very best idea of what it feels like to be a corn dog.

What dangers that word entails. How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity, without permanently losing self-respect?

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

All prisoners, as sexual beings and as bodies generally, come under threat when they make "transit" into the prison. All bodies in prisons then undergo what I term a "trans-terror", a systematic vulnerability that often includes sexual violation. In

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

She'd been pounding her location and thoughts into a device that would send those things to virtually any human with Internet access and yet looking over her shoulder had been a violation of privacy.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.

The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women.