violate

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.

To disturb; to interrupt.

To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.

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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. Adam Smith

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. Ulysses S. Grant

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot

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