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Tag Name "Unlawful" (39)

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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney
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Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
Charlotte Bronte
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We go after unlawful activities.
Paul Watson
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It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
Pope Leo XIII
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The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
Alan Keyes
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Aristotle
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The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.
Thomas Hobbes
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The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
Brian Crozier
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I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Viggo Mortensen
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[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.
Chris Matthews
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[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.
Edward Snowden
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard
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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
Frederick Douglass
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John Locke
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
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The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
Lilias Trotter
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.
Mike Lee
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He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
Muhammad
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When you speak, speak the truth perform when you promise discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.
Abdul Kalam
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In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive it is unlawful and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
Preet Bharara
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The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
Anthony Kennedy
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