Sanctions Quotes - Page 9

• We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Leadership, Women, Games

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• American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

  Philip Roth

  Character, Men, People

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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  Omar Bongo

  Europe, People, Important

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• The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

  Bertrand Russell

  Character, Practice, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.106, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

  Anatole France

  Justice, Cynical, Injustice

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Healthy, Democracy

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Michael Moore: Gun Control Necessary, Now" by Nicole Evatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Boss, Might

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

  William Hague

  Today, Messages, Responsible

  "Syria Death Toll Rises As Tanks Pound Residential Neighborhoods". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

  Alan Dershowitz

  Iran, United States, Nuclear

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• 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

  Law, Giving, Community

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.285, Penguin

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• 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.

  David Brainerd

  Errors, Law, Practice

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.473

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• Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

  Pat Robertson

  Law, Jail, People

  "Former Carter Staffer Attacks Pat Robertson for His Stance on Pot, Over-Incarceration". reason.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Giving, Slavery

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.36

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• Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Evil, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, Reform, Currents

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• 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

  Country, Mean, History

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.248

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• Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Liberty, Natural, Civil Liberties

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.61

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• Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report. ...here is what she said, 'I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination, and in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.'

  Alan K. Simpson

  Strong, Believe, Views

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• This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

  Charles Schumer

  Guarantees That, Uncharted Waters, Immigration

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• Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Support

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• Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Light, Evil, Giving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.366, Head of Zeus

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• The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Baby, Hate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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