Infringe Quotes

#1. The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Jacques Lipchitz

#3. Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Honore De Balzac

#4. President Bush said he didn't want to renew the Assault Weapons Ban because it might 'infringe on hunters' rights'. Who needs an AK-47 machine gun to go hunting? Let me tell you guys something ... If it takes you 500 rounds to bring down a deer, I don't want you going to the bathroom in MY house!

Elayne Boosler

#5. What is there to forgive? ... Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

Jasper Fforde

#6. Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Miguel De Icaza

#7. That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

John Adams

#8. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

#9. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

Erich Fromm

#10. I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

Gabriel E. Gomez

#11. I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

Michael Badnarik

#12. If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom, it's their choice to make.

Frank Sonnenberg

#13. The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.

Philip K. Dick

#14. It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

Benjamin Carson

#15. Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

Roger Wicker

#16. The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.

Vicki Abeles

#18. There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Barry Goldwater

#20. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#21. I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

Armie Hammer

#22. A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.

David O. McKay

#23. This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

George Harrison

#24. Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person's freedom.

Michael Phillip Cash

#25. a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.

Neil Weinstock Netanel

#26. Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country's freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#27. I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Kevin Ayers

#28. I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Michael Bloomberg

#29. I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.

Patrick Henry

#30. In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

Mark Skousen

#31. Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

Chiang Kai-shek

#32. We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.

Atul Gawande

#33. Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

#34. Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and 'tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

Michel De Montaigne

#35. Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

Rush Limbaugh

#36. With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

Ian MacKaye