#sanction

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#east #embraced #enduring #expect #independence

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#apostles #church #conceivable #every #government

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

#cannot #like #partnership #religion #sanction

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#believe #church #depriving #i #last

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#destruction #mass #need #people #sanctions

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

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

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

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

— George Santayana

#character #happiness #sanction

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

#crimes #economic #government #international #met

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage