violation quotes

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

- Andrea Dworkin
  Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter to Catherine Carswell,16  Apr.

The power of kings and magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative; transformed and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright.

-John Milton
^9  The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas orcommitting this or thatconventional violationof the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

-Vladimir Nabokov
'Madame Bovary'. Collected in Lectures on Literature (published 1980).