Lawlessness Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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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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In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the…
— Stefan Zweig
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
— Lincoln Steffens
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Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their…
— John Cage
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... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the…
— Paulo Freire
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When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood…
— Vance Havner
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The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of…
— Arno C. Gaebelein
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There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as…
— Josef von Sternberg
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
— Gijs de Vries
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With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other…
— Eric Metaxas
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Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
— Kristin Cashore
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Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.
— Kevin Bleyer
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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of…
— Paul Harris
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Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county…
— Thomas Jordan Jarvis
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History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for…
— Ronald Reagan
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