Violation Quotes
263 quotes by 226 authors
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Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
— Michelle Bachelet
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
— Joseph Barbera
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
— Carol Bellamy
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that…
— Sharron Angle
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The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the…
— Ronald Reagan
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[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization,…
— John Bruton
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses…
— Grover Cleveland
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The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the…
— George Carlin
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
— Ayn Rand
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
— James Madison
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The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
— James Madison
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I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
— Pope John Paul II
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation…
— George C. Edwards III
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We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.
— Donald Alexander
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This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than…
— Margaret E. Knight
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