Sanctions 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
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and… — Madeleine Albright
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
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not… — Madeleine Albright
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in… — William J. Clinton
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or… — Charles Schumer
Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report. ...here… — Alan K. Simpson
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton
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
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities. — Ruhollah Khomeini
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
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral… — Richard Furman
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would… — Vladimir Putin
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

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