Top 161 Sanction Quotes & Sayings

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Sheikh Rahman's fatwa was the first time that anyone associated with al Qaeda had given religious sanction to attacks on American aviation, shipping and economic targets.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.

I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.

There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.