Lawlessness Quotes:

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

- Emanuel Celler

source: Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

topic: Political, Lawlessness, Problem

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

- George Eliot

topic: Lawlessness, Revolution, Rebellion

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

topic: Military, Rights, Lawlessness, Good Governance

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 well.

- Josef von Sternberg

topic: Art, Law, Lawlessness

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

- Kristin Cashore

source: Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

- LeCrae

topic: Justice, Hip Hop, Lawlessness

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

- Lincoln Steffens

source: Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.8, Courier Corporation

topic: Lawlessness, Spirit

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 its corruption and lawlessness.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Citizens, Lawlessness, Sacred, Civil Disobedience, Libertarian Party

Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.

- Vidkun Quisling

topic: Revenge, Ideas, Lawlessness

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

- Xunzi

topic: Teacher, People, Lawlessness

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

- Xunzi

topic: Kings, Men, Lawlessness, Antiquity

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

- Dorothy Thompson

source: Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

topic: Inspirational, Self, Lawlessness, Perpetuating

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

- Roscoe Pound

topic: Law, Lawlessness, Administration

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

- Lisa Anderson

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: Lawlessness, Anarchy, Institutions

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Law, People, Lawlessness

To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border."

- Jeff Sessions

topic: Borders, Lawlessness, Trump

The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Lawlessness, Chaos, Crime

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Lawlessness, Anarchy

Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

- Isocrates

topic: Freedom, Equality, Rights, Forbearance, Political Ideology

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

- Thurgood Marshall

source: Thurgood Marshall's speech at the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha in St. Louis, Missouri (August 15, 1966) as quoted in "St. Louis Globe-Democrat" (p. 1), August 17, 1966.

topic: Frustration, Color, Law, Lawlessness

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

topic: Freedom, Men, Hands, Languish, Lawlessness

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.

- Ravi Zacharias

source: Twitter post from Jul 24, 2014

topic: Thinking, Law, Reminders, Lawlessness

We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Book, Ocean, Eye, Lawlessness

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

topic: Country, Compassion, White, Love And Wisdom, Lawlessness

If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding.

- J. Spencer Kinard

source: J. Spencer Kinard (1976). “The worth of a smile: spoken words for daily living”, Prentice Hall

topic: Mother, Father, Home, Happy Home, Healthy Happy

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 powers besides itself.

- Eric Metaxas

source: Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Real, Goal, Democracy, Lawlessness

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Leadership, War, Home, Lawlessness

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 of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

- Vance Havner

topic: Christian, Fall, People, Toothpicks, Lawlessness

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

- Benjamin Harrison

source: Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

topic: Law, Practice, Class, Lawlessness

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Government, Law, Storm, Lawlessness

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

- Matt Gonzalez

topic: Kids, Opportunity, Thinking, Lawlessness

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: War, Hunger Poverty, People, Lawlessness

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

- R.J. Rushdoony

topic: War, Creativity, Opportunity, Lawlessness

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

- Toni Cade Bambara

topic: Discipline, Greed, Unity, Lawlessness

The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.

- Louis O. Kelso

topic: Country, Men, Engineering, Lawlessness

We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

- Orlando Figes

topic: Children, Justice, Wife, Suffocating, Lawlessness

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility, Lawlessness

There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also going through travail to give birth to the messengers of power who are sent to prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom by preaching the gospel of the kingdom throughout the earth.

- Rick Joyner

topic: Preaching The Gospel, Giving, World, Meltdowns, Corresponding

Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

topic: Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self, Lawlessness, Reproach

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

topic: Funny, Government, People, Lack Of Respect, Lawlessness

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

- William Allingham

topic: Revenge, Hatred, Selfishness, Lawlessness, Hatred And Revenge

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 occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Unhappy, Vienna, Brutality, Austria, Lawlessness

Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law.

- Ray Comfort

topic: Christian, Jesus, Law, Divine Law, Faith In Jesus

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!

- Utah Phillips

source: Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

topic: Country, Song, Brother, Benevolent, Labor Laws

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Drinking, Believe, Wine, Lawlessness, Saloons

Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

- Mary B. Harris

topic: Revenge, Character, Government, Laws And Government, Travesty

I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

- Ted Cruz

topic: Change, Real, Believe, Lawlessness

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Party, People, Guilt, Repression, Lawlessness

...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

- Brock Chisholm

topic: Family, Thinking, People, Lawlessness, Uncivilized

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Teacher, Political, Society, Lawlessness