Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Even if I did feel bad for Darian, I wouldn’t admit it. Siding with anyone who violates The Protectorate would make me Noncompliant. That would make me almost as corrupt as him. To side with those who violate The Protectorate is strictly forbidden ...
When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think...
I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it...
The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for ...
Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
Boundary violations are deeply experienced.
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstr...
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.
We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
