Sanctions Quotes

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

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Work, Character

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press

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• We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

  Robert Mugabe

  Europe, Zimbabwe, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Law, Answers

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

  Ron Paul

  Country, War, Pay

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• Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Science, Technology

  "CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2015.

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Death, Stories, Storytelling

  "Illuminations".

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• Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

  Brian May

  Hurt, Children, Glitter

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• 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 with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Agreement, Talking, People

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• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  Omar Bongo

  Economic Sanctions, Achieve, Results

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• No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

  Abdul Kalam

  Mind

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• I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

  George Galloway

  Children, War, Desire

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• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, Jobs, Climate

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• I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

  Dennis A. Ross

  East, Chemical Weapons, Counselor

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• I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Cheese

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Democracy, Intimidation

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• 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 other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Law, Punishment

  The Federalist no. 15 (1788)

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• Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Issues, Rights

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• Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

  Ralph Nader

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  Omar Bongo

  Responsibility, Justice, Principles

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Economic Sanctions, Serious

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• I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

  George Galloway

  War, Iraq, Oil

  "Labour to investigate Galloway allegations" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2003.

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

  Anita Brookner

  God, Philosophical, Hero

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

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Liberty, Serious

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