Lawlessness Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
-
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
— George Eliot
-
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the…
— Robert Kennedy
-
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE…
— Orlando Figes
-
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect…
— Ronald Reagan
-
We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean…
— Michele Bachmann
-
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
-
What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will…
— Lou Engle
-
If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or…
— J. Spencer Kinard
-
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
— Xunzi
-
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of…
— Matt Gonzalez
-
Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus,…
— Ray Comfort
-
Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for…
— Vidkun Quisling
-
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as…
— Isocrates
-
Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.
— Roscoe Pound
-
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. Â There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. Â The…
— Jacque Fresco
-
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
— Emanuel Celler
-
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right…
— Brock Chisholm
-
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
— Thurgood Marshall
-
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of…
— R.J. Rushdoony
-
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
— Xunzi
Who Wrote These Lawlessness Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 36 Lawlessness Quotes, led by these top contributors: