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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


#anywhere #condition #crime #customs #deplorable

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.


Aung San Suu Kyi


#really #sanctions #weapon

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.


Daw Aung San Suu Kyi


#political #sanctions #serious #tied #would

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.


Amiri Baraka


#armed #buildings #enemy #exist #flag

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.


Simon Greenleaf


#bestowed #created #faculties #god #him

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


#foolish #indeed #ineffective #keep #negotiating

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


Walter Benjamin


#borrowed #death #everything #his #sanction

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


#aimed #being #certain #directly #end

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


#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.


Joseph McKenna


#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction






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