Sanction Quotes

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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. — Joseph Addison
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were… — David Brainerd
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… — Edmund Burke
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have… — Alexander Hamilton
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has… — Henry Fielding
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the… — Vladimir Putin
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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… — Alexander Hamilton
I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective. — George W. Bush
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be.Â The Christian religion is the best religion that has been… — Thomas Jefferson
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object… — Charles Dickens
Justice is the sanction of established injustice. — Anatole France
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of… — Mel White
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Jeffrey R. Holland

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