Lawless Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
— John Lyly
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
— Pindar
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.…
— Samuel Adams
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Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being…
— Hippolytus of Rome
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Laws can't control the lawless.
— Wayne LaPierre
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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for…
— Lincoln Steffens
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As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from…
— Alexander Hamilton
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
— Bertrand Russell
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike…
— Plato
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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
— Aeschines
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Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'
— Joel Miller
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
— Agnes Repplier
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I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of…
— George MacDonald
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
— Socrates
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And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
— Edwin Muir
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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