If my salary is taken without my agreement, it is a…

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that…

— Edward Snowden

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…

— Ron Paul

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Carol Bellamy

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation…

— Maria Julia Hernandez

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows…

— Allyson Robinson

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

— Ayn Rand

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…

— Hannah Arendt

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation…

— Angela Merkel

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies…

— Patrick Caddell

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…

— James T. Walsh

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

— Immanuel Kant

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal