Unlawful Quotations

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

We go after unlawful activities.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.