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Quotes About Infraction

of graduated response where your carefully calibrate what size of stick is suitable for each enemy infraction—but agree to put the stick away if he'll agree to negotiate; and of general fecklessness compared to an enemy that was willing to destroy their country in order to communize it. Had
~ Phillip Jennings
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
~ George Soros
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
~ Robert D. Sprecht
I was so busy lapping up Mr. Biggshotte's flattery that I committed an infraction on the scoring play. And that, for an experienced graduate of Screw U., is indefensible
~ Robert J. Ringer
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
~ Joseph Howe
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions - pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.
~ Jamaal Bowman
I've never been given a ticket by a police man.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Dans l'ordre du normatif, le commencement c'est l'infraction. [...] La condition de possibilité des règles ne fait qu'un avec la condition de possibilité de l'expérience des règles. L'expérience des règles c'est la mise à l'épreuve, dans une situation d'irrégularité, de la fonction régulatrice des règles.
~ Georges Canguilhem
694.The quickest red card ever given out in soccer history was just three seconds into the match, when player Lee Todd, who played for Chippenham in the U.K., exclaimed, "Eff me, that was loud," after the starting whistle was blown.
~ Scott Matthews
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
~ Thomas Troward
Ceecee liked him immediately because of that curl, because of that infraction against perfection.
~ Karen White
Summerset-I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.
~ J.D. Robb
subs sometimes require discipline, especially at first. Infractions like missing your monthly attendance quota or topping from the bottom will result in some form of punishment. Depending on the infraction, you might expect something as mild as a time-out in a slave cage, or as extreme as a serious whipping—not the good kind
~ Claire Thompson
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
~ Cory Doctorow
Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night. Someone else made a speech showing how by careful planning we could break all the others before dawn.
~ John Knowles
As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.
~ Pascal Bruckner