quotes about Lawlessness
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Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
-- Emanuel CellerSource : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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.
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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 -
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Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
-- Kristin CashoreSource : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.
-- LeCrae -
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
-- Lincoln SteffensSource : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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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 -
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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 -
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 -
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
-- Dorothy ThompsonSource : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”
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Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.
-- Roscoe Pound -
If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.
-- Lisa AndersonSource : Source: www.rollingstone.com