All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Spencer Bachus

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
Jerome Richardson

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
Roger Nash Baldwin

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
Len Wein

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
Shirin Ebadi

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
James Inhofe

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.
Trent Lott

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
Shirin Ebadi

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
Robert Shea

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
Marquis de Lafayette

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
Jay Alan Sekulow