Quotes About Sanction

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.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

The creation of property, therefore, is an act necessary to human survival–and as such the requirements of our survival as human beings sanction our taking those actions, and those sanctions are called rights.

India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.

The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics To sanction what we do Or to muffle us in comfort From what we did not do.

Let the masses understand that these robbers hold this property (which is so much unpaid labor) under the plea of the laws which they themselves [the robbers] have made, and by the sanction of the very men they have locked out to starve.

Once religion sanctions a belief, our ordinary notions of what distinguishes the insane from the sane are thrown out the window.

How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty?

Together they speak of theopolitical megalomania and of any collaboration of political power and religious sanction—civil religion—that falsely claims to represent the true God and God's will.

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.

The ICC was therefore in keeping with the law when, to the delight of the railroads, it decided to give its sanction and imprimatur to the freight rates worked out by the railroad rate associations—in short, to use the federal government to ratify rates decided upon by private railroad cartels.

The practice of creating independent regulatory commissions, who perform administrative work in addition to judicial work," Roosevelt himself admitted, "threatens to develop a 'fourth branch' of Government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution."33

by any means without the prior written consent

I think if you knew what you did, even the most thoughtless amongst you would not sanction with your praise, and encourage with your coin, the brutality that trains dancing-dogs.

If anyone dares to condemn or assail our decree of apostolic sanction, he should know that he is in danger of losing his own grade of order. For he who does not attack a vice, but rather coddles it, is justly judged guilty of the death together with those who die by that vice.

Officially. That's what it'll be: officially vindicated.