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

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

John Locke
Taken, Individual, Unlawful
John Locke (2016). “Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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

Ovid
Pleasure, Attractive, Unlawful

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

Philip Sidney
Desire, Impossible, Unlawful
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

We go after unlawful activities.

Paul Watson
Unlawful, Activity

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.

Michel de Montaigne
Reason, Natural, Unlawful
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.666, 谷月社

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

Margaret Sanger
Unlawful, Exceed, Millions
Woman and the New Race ch. 14 (1920)

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

Frederick Douglass
Slave, Unlawful, Teach
Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.70, Penguin

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