Law Breaking Quotes (page 3)

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• life sayings
• your life
• inspirational

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear ou? but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Henry David Thoreau

• football
• evening
• god

Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him. Christopher Hitchens

• relatives
• evil
• life

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side. Jodi Picoult

• writing
• serious
• law

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. Louise Mensch

• law
• course
• breaks

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. Angelina Grimke

• law
• government
• ours

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Al Gore

• freedom
• law
• quits

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law. Gary Gilmore

• may
• real
• spring

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. Isadora Duncan

• freedom
• law
• treason

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. Kurt Huber

• law
• rebel
• stillness

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. William Petersen

• nature
• law
• natures

Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci

• art
• law
• interested

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. Mason Cooley

• people
• law
• old

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. William Tyndale

• school
• greatness
• great

The great break of my literary career was going to law school. Scott Turow

• law
• you
• justly

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. Mae West