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«Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
by nature, pornography, protest, tense, theatrical, theatricals, violations
«So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, moreover, violation, violations
«There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.»
«There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
civil disobedience, civil law, clandestine, glaringly, in the public eye, neglected, public eye, The Public Eye, violation, violations
«Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
| Keywords:
departure, detestable, in proportion to, marital, mortal sin, perversion, perversions, procreation, venial, venial sin, violation, violations
«But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature
| Keywords:
concurrence, knavery, Laws of nature, phenomena, signal, violation, violations
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
demanded, enormity, flagrant, grasped, happening, happenings, interested, in public, notice, sufficiently, The Public Interest, violations
«School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Day,
Schools
| Keywords:
brutal, common school, decency, human existence, ordinances, span, spanning, tasks, unhappiest, unintelligible, unpleasant, violations
«The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
carries, sacrilege, subversive, The sense, violation, violations
«Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
human health, human society, liar, stab, stabbing, stabs, suicide, violation, violations
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