„I violate the Prohibition law, sure, Who doesn’t? The only difference is that I take more chances than the man who drinks a cocktail before dinner and a flock of highballs after it.“

— Al Capone

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„The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.“
— Susan B. Anthony
„Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.“
— Dale Carnegie
„Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?“
— Charles Bukowski
„I told you once how I believe it isn't love that dies, it's the man and the woman, something in the man and the woman that dies, doesn't deserve the chance any more to love.“
— William Faulkner
„During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt