Quotes with sanction

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  • George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ayn Rand Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Anita Brookner Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • George Santayana Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edmund Burke 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.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 action - that the end will sanction any means.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn 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.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Bobby Scott 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.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer 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.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Jindal 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.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • John Hay 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.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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