Famous quotes containing the words violation, law and/or punishment:
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)