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«To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.»
«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 of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the f»
Author: Grover Cleveland
| Keywords:
administration, economical, exacted, exaction, expenses, extortion, Meet The, obligations, ruthless, sustenance, taxation, the F, violation, violations
«So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, moreover, violation, violations
«The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, consideration, dissolve, obligations, operate, Public Safety, undoubtedly, urgent, violation, violations
«There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
civil disobedience, civil law, clandestine, glaringly, in the public eye, neglected, public eye, The Public Eye, violation, violations
«Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
| Keywords:
departure, detestable, in proportion to, marital, mortal sin, perversion, perversions, procreation, venial, venial sin, violation, violations
«But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature
| Keywords:
concurrence, knavery, Laws of nature, phenomena, signal, violation, violations
«The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
carries, sacrilege, subversive, The sense, violation, violations
«Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
human health, human society, liar, stab, stabbing, stabs, suicide, violation, violations
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