Leonardo DiCaprio

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.

American Actor

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

American Author

Yogi Adityanath

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically - it's also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

Indian Politician

Orson Welles

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

American Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

English Writer

Aeschines

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Greek Statesman

William Blake

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

English Poet

Sharyl Attkisson

The rules seem rigged to protect government lawlessness, and the playing field is uneven.

American Journalist

William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

English Playwright

Use 'lawless' to describe historical times or places with notorious lack of law enforcement.

Historical Context

'Lawless' can metaphorically describe situations or areas feeling chaotic or uncontrolled.

Metaphorical Use

'Lawless' often implies something negative, suggesting danger or disorder.

Negative Connotation

Apply 'lawless' to describe someone's behavior that blatantly disregards the rules.

Personal Behavior

Use 'lawless' for actions clearly against the law, often involving crimes.

Criminal Activities

'Lawless' has a critical tone, used to disparage someone’s illegal actions.

Pejorative Sense

 and we will pay. Unless we really do something quite different. I have been scratching my head at the ACLU for the last week. We've been at this for 100 years. My organization has been working on this from its inception. In 1931, we were involved with this report about lawlessness in law enforcement.

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 little I mean yes they were lawless I couldn't remember what they were called for a second and the marsh breakaways and they're so cute that's not of course to say that they're not still lovely as they grow up as we've had to learn with hisana

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 also a means that there's no romance no love no kissing no touching and it's no performance anxiety what are the reasons for this we think there are five main factors America is now leading the world industrialized world in far lawlessness

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 the killers no one's properly investigated this crime they pull us over and we're not in a place with no law it's a free-for-all out there and no justice but feel like we're getting close here danger runs deep in the lawless oceans

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 destroyed or put in museums and what should happen to the protestors who deface these monuments? Should they be praised for helping debunk myths of white supremacy? Or should they be punished for vigilantism and lawlessness?

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 mostly to make sure the war didn't break out again. But other than that, it was actually a lawless place, and almost every social institution, both public and private, had been destroyed. So I can tell you

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 that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high surrender or you'll suffer. So of course, all his sensible victims surrendered on sight. Put like that,

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 despite unprecedented police violence, despite state lawlessness? The answer I hear the most is that people have become fearless, and it's something we have become together.

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 But it's not. Auditors of international assistance recently couldn't find even one percent of aid going to protect the poor from the lawless chaos of everyday violence.

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 along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan this is a lawless expanse of tribal land uncovered and largely