Top Sanction Quotes
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand
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.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
Paul Harris 
Joseph McKenna 
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 
Muhammad Ali Jinnah All Sanction Quotes
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana 
79% of people like this quote
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna
66% of people like this quote
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.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
53% of people like this quote
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
52% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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.
Paul Harris
50% of people like this quote
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
48% of people like this quote