Sanction Quotes

89 quotes by 73 authors

I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's… — John Galt
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to… — Jared Harris
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid… — Theodore Roosevelt
We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued… — Brigham Young
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… — Benjamin Franklin
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or… — Tom Hodgkinson
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We… — Michael Moore
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. — Ayn Rand
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana
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… — Lysander Spooner
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… — Ayn Rand
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-… — Ayn Rand
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. — Ayn Rand
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker

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