Breaking The Law Quotes

If there is anything material and we’re not reporting it, we’ll be breaking the law. We don’t break the law.

I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn’t a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn’t doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

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.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

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.

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.

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.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can’t go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who’s sniffing cocaine.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house… This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.

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

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.