Top 100 Break The Law Quotes
#1. One would think that Jesus's admonishment not to teach others to break the Law of Moses would have had some impact on Paul. But Paul seems totally unconcerned with anything "Jesus-in-the-flesh" may or may not have said.
Reza Aslan
#3. The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust.
Francis Fukuyama
#4. If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
#5. But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.
Chelsea Cain
#7. The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
E. Stanley Jones
#8. Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
Blaise Pascal
#9. If the law can be broken it will. Anyone who breaks the law is a risk. You can break the law. So you see, I have to take you in for questioning. This produce stand has an ominous future.
Benson Bruno
#10. Yes, thought Vimes. That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means "private law." Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it. Well,
Terry Pratchett
#11. If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
Zig Ziglar
#13. The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.
Damian Wampler
#14. In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.
Gretchen Rubin
#15. The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.
Dave Rowntree
#16. The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
James Callaghan
#17. He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.
Walter Russell
#18. People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.
Rush Limbaugh
#19. All that I do is right - for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law - and the law of some others.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#20. I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.
GG Allin
#21. The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.
Lucy Freeman
#22. The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
William McKinley
#23. Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.
David Cameron
#24. At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.
Margaret Thatcher
#25. Bush violated FISA [ ... ] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law.
Glenn Greenwald
#26. The laws are made to be broken,... if nobody will break them why they are made???
Deyth Banger
#27. It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#28. When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history, [which] break the rules to get the villains, and [in doing] so become villains themselves.
Barrett Brown
#29. So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.
Watchman Nee
#30. Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.
Mike Caro
#31. When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
Steven Magee
#32. Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.
Suzanne Massie
#35. She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.
Thomas Hardy
#36. Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: (1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.
Dennis Overbye
#37. Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor
Siddharth Katragadda
#39. So far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold thathe is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...
Angelina Grimke
#40. I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
Scott Turow
#41. There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
Anthony De Mello
#42. Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don't need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted.
Derek Rydall
#43. The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
Scott Turow
#44. Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
Kathy Acker
#45. People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're going to jail. Absent that, you're entitled to say whatever you want to say within reason.
Bob Buckhorn
#46. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte Bronte
#47. When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
Adrian Rogers
#48. If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.
Elizabeth Warren
#49. Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.
Peter Singer
#50. Not until you know the real dos and don'ts of your faith and religion, you shall always break the dos and don'ts of your religion, knowingly and or unknowingly, just because of the work you want to do for a living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.
Ronald Reagan
#52. There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.
John Edwards
#53. Great Leaders do NOT break the law, not because of the fear of being caught but because of the fear of God & love for the land
Fela Durotoye
#54. I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!
William Gaddis
#55. Instead, she found her argument in the "doctrine of necessity," an idea established in common law that in certain limited circumstances, which no parliament would ever care to define, it was permissible to break the criminal law to prevent a greater evil.
Ian McEwan
#56. The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
Ernst Junger
#57. Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.
Ilana Mercer
#58. Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.
George Pataki
#59. There's nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.
Jared Brock
#60. We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.
Tod Goldberg
#61. It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. DeMille
#62. We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.
Paul Cellucci
#63. Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
#64. feeling free never breaks the law but, you shall never be free when you break the law whilst feeling free!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.
George Carlin
#66. A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
Clarence Thomas
#67. The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.
Rush Limbaugh
#68. As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.
Meles Zenawi
#69. Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
Ravi Zacharias
#70. Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
John Ashcroft
#71. Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.
Charles Manson
#73. Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.
Bill O'Reilly
#74. You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.
Kenneth Langone
#75. If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison,
Stephen Harper
#77. Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.
Allan Bloom
#78. She did worse than break the law, she broke the rules
Leo Tolstoy
#79. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.
Carl R. Trueman
#80. Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
#81. Those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
Elizabeth Goudge
#82. There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
Edward Snowden
#83. A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.
Rowan Williams
#84. It doesn't matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
#85. Your word is not above the law
If your word of honour is in conflict with the law, then you must break your word and take dishonour upon your name, said Vasishta. That is dharma
Amish Tripathi
#86. Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
Solon
#87. Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
Russell Pearce
#88. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#89. In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
Stephen Hawking
#90. Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#91. Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
Louise Mensch
#92. laws are not important. What is important is justice. If the purpose of justice is served by breaking a law, then break it.' 'Lord Ram said that?' asked
Amish Tripathi
#93. immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers.
James C. Scott
#94. The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.
Booker T. Washington
#95. I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
Michel De Montaigne
#96. If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.
Philip Berrigan
#97. Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.
Rob Portman
#98. You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.
Elizabeth Warren
#99. If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
Kenneth Lay
#100. If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.
Steven Magee
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