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Quotes About Violation

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
~ Samuel Johnson
The unwillingness on the part of men and women to acknowledge their helpless dependence is a violation of our "creatureliness." The unwillingness to be obedient is a violation of our humanity. Both are declarations of independence and, whether physical or moral, are essentially atheistic. In both, the answer to the call is no.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
This doctrine of necessity in universality means that there is an essence to the universe which forbids relationships beyond itself, as a violation of its rationality. Speculative philosophy seeks that essence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
No existe nombre para la violación de un diario. Lo cual demuestra que es más grave. No tiene nombre.
~ Amelie Nothomb
As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
~ Donald Evans
But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
~ Ban Ki-moon
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
~ J. B. Pritzker
Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a violation of human rights.
~ Asma Jahangir
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.
~ Jose Ferreira
If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.
~ Robert Whittaker
You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Rockefeller countered with a $50 million expansion of the state court system, including the creation of a hundred or more politically appetizing supreme court judgeships, each one paying $43,316. Pressed on whether appointing these justices violated the state constitution, which mandated their popular election, Rockefeller had a ready response: "It's only unconstitutional if you call them a Supreme Court judge. Call them something else, it's constitutional.
~ Richard Norton Smith
It was like the engineer had broken some code of the sea that said you must assist pirates in taking over your ship.
~ Richard Phillips
What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?
~ Richelle Mead
Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.
~ Richelle Mead
What statute was violated, if any, in turning a man exactly ninety degrees from everything else?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Pike hung up, and I stood in the center of the kitchen and listened to the silence. Someone had been in my home, and it made me feel creepy and violated and angry. I pulled out the Dan Wesson, sat it on the kitchen counter, and crossed my arms. "Let's see'm come back now." Acting tough will sometimes help, but not always, and the gun did not lessen the feeling that I was vulnerable and at risk. They seldom do.
~ Robert Crais
What is the meaning of this gross outrage?
~ Kenneth Grahame
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
~ Kingsley Amis
When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.
~ John Irving
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
~ James Madison
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
~ James Stewart
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.
~ Georges Bataille