Violation Quotes

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
Thomas Jefferson

Violence, Shall, Took

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
Ron Paul

Someone, Else, Another

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle

God, Government, Daily

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller

Evil, Different, Sense

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera

After, Rejection, Year

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
Lech Walesa

Good, Nothing, Privacy

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
Dave Eggers

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
Mike Krzyzewski

Free, Another, Won

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
Bianca Jagger

War, Law, Wrong

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
Leon Panetta

Place, Military, Sexual

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin

Control, Law, United

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank

Serious, Knew, Ethics

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Michelle Bachelet

Religion, Women, Human

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin Tucker

Liberty, Insult, Pay

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
Carol Bellamy

Children, Rights, Situation

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Joseph Stiglitz

Rights, Generation, Concerned

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
Jamaica Kincaid

Power, Talk, Race

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Helen Dunmore

History, Try, Individual

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Jose Maria Aznar

Legal, Security, Iraq

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.
Jo Bonner

Place, Since, Act

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
David Kay

Work, Done, Fact

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
Adam Schiff

Children, Giving, Less

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Great, Men, Wrong

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.
Russell Pearce

Government, Law, Crime

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo

Insult, Rights, China

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Helen Dunmore

Simply, Century, Deny

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
Dan Farmer

Business, Model, Copyright

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
James Cronin

Series, Electronic, Discovered

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
George William Norris

War, Law, Against

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