Quotes about Unlawful Act

Jane Porter

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Martin Bashir

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

Donald E. Westlake

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

Adrian McKinty

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Conor McGregor

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Thomas Paine

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

John Locke

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Hilary Mantel

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

Waris Dirie

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

King James I

That means that I shall be under the law, which it is treason to affirm.

The king summoned all his judges before him and stated that since they were his surrogates, he could remove cases at will from their jurisdiction and decide them himself. Sir Edward Coke, a leading jurist of the day, dissented and urged that since his Majesty was not learned in the law, he should leave legal matters to his judges and lawyers.

Visgoths

Whenever a freeborn person, a freedman, or a slave, is known to have committed any unlawful act by the order of his patron or his master, said patron or master shall be held liable for all satisfaction and composition for the same; for he who obeys the orders of his superior, cannot be considered guilty, because it is evident that he did not commit the act by his own will, but under the command of one possessing authority over him.

This principle has been characteristic of almost all legal systems in one form or another. In some, the actual perpetrator of the crime is also held guilty. Not so with the Visigoths with their strong system of fairness in everything but religion where they were primitive and maniacal. The Nuremberg Trials did not protect the perpetrator if the order itself was illegal. This compilation is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.

Roscoe Conkling

No thank you, I don't engage in criminal practice.

When asked to campaign for his arch-rival James G. Blaine for the presidency: Conkling was the most important Republican in New York State. His Presidential ambitions had been thwarted and he left government to return to his New York law practice. When Blaine became the Republican Presidential candidate, New York Republicans wanted Conkling’s OK to campaign actively for Blaine. Conkling refused. New York State went for the Democrats and Blaine lost the election by a smaller margin than New York’s electoral votes. There are some historians who question whether the quotation is an accurate one or merely apocryphal.

George Gurdjieff

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

Jack Kevorkian

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

Unlawful Act Quotes