Lawless Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. — Pindar
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
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
Laws can't control the lawless. — Wayne LaPierre
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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
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
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
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
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. — Aeschines
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' — Joel Miller
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. — Agnes Repplier
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
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. — Socrates
And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land. — Edwin Muir
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
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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