Sanction Quotes

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 sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

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 indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

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 as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

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.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

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 world.

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 general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.