Quotes about Infraction

Kamala Harris

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

George Soros

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Kentucky

the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy:

Commonly referred to as the Kentucky Resolution. This concept of Nullification was one of the factors that aggravated the tensions leading to the Civil War. Were the individual States to be the arbiters of whether or not a Federal act was Constitutional or was it to be the Supreme Court.

William Randolph Hearst

... a living, breathing crime in breeches.

Dan Ariely

In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

Yorgos Lanthimos

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Cory Doctorow

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

It was the allurement of these fiscal advantages undoubtedly that prolonged the illusion and concealed the immense injury they did to industry and their infraction of natural right. This illusion had extended so far that some persons asserted that the right to work was a royal privilege which the king might sell, and that his subjects were bound to purchase from him. We hasten to correct this error and to repel the conclusion. God in giving to man wants and desires rendering labor necessary for their satisfaction, conferred the right to labor upon all men, and this property is the first, most sacred, and imprescriptible of all.... The King [Louis XVI] regards it as the first duty of his justice, and the worthiest act of benevolence, to free his subjects from any restriction upon this inalienable right of humanity.

It was the common practice in France to allow citizens to work in various occupations only if they received Royal permission. Some obtained monopolies in certain trades for certain areas. This is an excellent case of a reform which completely reversed previous policies. The authority doing the reform takes credit for it ignoring that the abuses and evils that it corrected were operated and maintained by them also. This quotation was also used in arguing the Slaughterhouse Cases before the Supreme Court in 1873.

Giorgio Chiellini

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

Kieran Trippier

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

Infraction Quotes