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Sanctions Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- 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…
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
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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… — 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… — David Brainerd
- Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on… — Madeleine Albright
- In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Frederick Douglass