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Quotes About Unlawful

If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
~ Lysander Spooner
He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
~ Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas
My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.
~ Eric Schneiderman
What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3
~ Karen Armstrong
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
~ Anthony Kennedy
Until the 1980s English Customs officers were instructed to treat any traveller carrying condoms in their luggage as a suspect person, and to search for drugs or other unlawful items.)
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Her citation for unlawful assembly costs Mimi $300. It's not a bad deal. She has paid twice as much for a winter coat that gave her half the satisfaction.
~ Richard Powers
in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait - they have become "unlawful combatants", "battlefield detainees". That, in essence, is what the Russians called them in the 1980s. It justified their detention in the hideous Pol e-Chowkri prison outside Kabul
~ Robert Fisk
In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.
~ Robert Kennedy
We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power.
~ Frank Herbert
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
~ John Calvin
Such a law doesn't exist that would stay determined for bringing serving judges to trial for the accountability of their unlawful and unjust verdicts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Merely lifting the unlawful ban and allowing all unvaccinated men to visit public spaces & board on train,bus or tram is not justice, unless and until those implemented this unwarranted travelling rule & atrocious going clause and caused pain to poor people & commuters are punished under laws
~ Anuj Somany
This is the thing you need to spread the word about among our people wherever you go. Never let them be brainwashed into thinking that whenever they take steps to see that they're in a position to defend themselves that they;re being unlawful. The only time you're being unlawful is when you break the law. It's LAWFUL to have something to DEFEND yourself.
~ Malcolm X
The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!
~ Arthur W. Pink
Illegal is always faster.
~ Eoin Colfer
Good. Illegal is always faster.
~ Eoin Colfer
your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
~ Alexei Navalny
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.
~ Potter Stewart
Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights should be stripped from them?
~ Karin Fossum
I have been arrested before in NYC, and it is frightening and uncomfortable. But when I asked if I could now walk away and take my train — no one stopped me. The takeaway? When I refused to comply with these unlawful "mandates" that had burnt out the soul of a once-great city, nothing happened. The bullies, Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, who put these scary-sounding, Dear Leader-esque "edicts" in place
~ Naomi Wolf
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
~ Eusebius