For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men. . . . Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
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.
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the Israeli government asserts when claiming that Hamas and IS are the exact same thing. By saying so, the historical resistance [against the Israeli occupation] is viewed as unlawful, called extremism and terrorism.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
We go after unlawful activities.
I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat. , Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit. ]
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
