Breaking Law Quotes

I had believed it [organizing the Watergate break-in] was wrong but believed that the greater good was in serving the President.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

If an injustice 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 government machine.

We have taken this action, because as women…we realize that the condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty even to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we do so.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

I think that Donald Trump has been very clear on this. We're not going to have amnesty . What we're going to do is to get those who are breaking the law out of the country as quickly as possible to make sure then that you deal with people in a humane way. I think that's what he's been saying.

Civil disobedience is the right of all men when we believe breaking man's law is needed to preserve God's law.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.

Speeding obviously is illegal. I know that's not what you're supposed to do.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.

It's not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you're saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD - that's not how that works.

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.