Sanctions Quotes

180 quotes by 141 authors

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to… — Mike Farrell
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
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… — Walter Lippmann
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
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
Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant… — Christopher Hitchens
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked — Ralph Nader
I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not… — Denis Halliday
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
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland… — Mitt Romney
We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers… — Robert Mugabe
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
Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements… — Caspar Weinberger
You know, if youâ€™re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good youâ€™re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you… — Elizabeth Warren
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it. — Ayn Rand

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