Violation Quotes
263 Violation quotes by 221 unique authors
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
— Lech Walesa
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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the…
— James T. Walsh
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the…
— Earl Warren
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
— Ana Castillo
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Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You…
— Anne Lamott
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Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
— John Steinbeck
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
— George Orwell
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
— Charles Bukowski
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Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.
— Don DeLillo
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Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
— Gail Caldwell
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Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
— H P Lovecraft
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... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three…
— Rob Thurman
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War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
— Edward Gibbon
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A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
— Anne Lamott
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Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Wrote These Violation Quotes
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