Sanction Quotes

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.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Even the awareness of weapons and the nondisclosure of that awareness will lead to sanction and punishment,

The Court finds that the only possible sanction ... is to strike the Defendant`s pleadings and enter a default (judgment) for the plaintiffs,

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

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.

One of the features of our annual meeting is that all the members gather in person to have face-to-face discussions about such subjects as breeding policies, canine health issues and testing programs. For example, we have discussed the prospects of including the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association`s `utility test` to go along with the `natural ability` test we already now use in qualifying our dogs for our club`s breeding program. Likewise, there have been some useful debates on how to sanction any breeders who have dogs with serious genetic defects.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. The sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence.