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Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.