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Quotes About Violations

Now, it's are you now, have you ever been, and will you ever be in the future a supporter of non-violent boycotts against Israeli violations of international law? That's an outrage.
~ Phyllis Bennis
Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.
~ Peter A. Levine
Perpetrators of human rights violations redefine morality and start believing that they can commit systematic murder and other atrocities "for the greater good." The distance between evil and sickness is not that great. The evil component of crimes against humanity is the moral failing. The sickness aspect is the defect in perspective, the distortion in mental processing that both precedes the evil and is intensified by it.
~ Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
When something cement does not fit into the current context of activated ideas, the system detects an abnormality, as you just experienced. You had no particular idea of what was coming after something, but you knew when the word cement came that it was abnormal in that sentence. Studies of brain responses have shown that violations of normality are detected with astonishing speed and subtlety.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
juvenile female aggravated assault rate took a 57 percent hike. Juvenile weapons violations for males went down seven percent, but for females it went up 44 percent.
~ Dave Grossman
He suspended habeas corpus, arrested newspaper editors, jailed Northerners without hearings or trials, bypassed Congress, ignored the Supreme Court, and even arrested a member of Congress. He justified these violations as part of the Executive's War Powers and claimed that he violated the Constitution for the sole purpose of protecting it.
~ James D. Best
Instead of worrying about hypothetical slippages awaiting egalitarian believers, like sliding into secular feminism, theological liberalism, or homosexuality, they would do better to deal with brutal violations of their "family values" that are actually happening today within their hierarchy-driven allegedly Christian homes.
~ Alan F. Johnson
For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'
~ Alex Pareene
In every sport you get cheats.
~ Jimi Manuwa
Los que están de acuerdo con la libertad del sexo tampoco se diferencian gran cosa; lo único que hacen es dar una justificación racional a las violaciones recíprocas. Aceptando este punto de vista, se podría llegar al goce; pero la libertad ligada a una constante preocupación - como una cortina que no cierra bien- puede producir un psicópata sexual, y ya no queda para su órgano ni la oportunidad de quitarse el sombrero y descansar.
~ K?b? Abe
If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.
~ Q.M. Sidd
If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.
~ Q.M. Sidd
If one is inflexible and devoted to an illusion of normalcy - stability, permanence, reality - then the break is always harsher. The more rules there are to violate, the more violations there will be, because what we call reality is an interpretative construct of the human mind; a reality we re-make every day to deny the howling nothingness of existence and the meaningless tragedy of life.
~ David J. Schow
Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.
~ Brendan Sullivan
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
~ Nelson Mandela
July 23, 1962: The United States joins thirteen other nations at Geneva in signing the "Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos." CIA and Pentagon opponents regard Kennedy's negotiation of the Laotian agreement as surrender to the Communists. They undermine it by supporting General Phoumi's violations of the cease-fire.
~ James W. Douglass
Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
Locked in my invisible cage, I am living proof of human rights violations, and I'm not even human
~ Y?ko Tawada
The violation of the existence and natures of things, of oneself, or of others is evil. Disrespect encroaches upon the space of others, and alters or empties their nature. Respect is respect for the limits, the boundaries, the space of others, and thus for their natures. Morally good action designates the active respect for others, for things, and also for ourselves.
~ Alphonso Lingis
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
~ Ian Lustick
bear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effects endure.
~ Richard Rothstein
every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.
~ Larry Crabb
David's tape recorder is allowed in the class to document potential future violations. The secretary doesn't sound too upset at the idea that Mr. Neck could get canned. I bet she knows him personally.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson