#sanction

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

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#sanctioned #should #traditional #traditional marriage

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. ↗

— Helen Clark

#case #crank #end #in the end #itself

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

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

#appalling #cities #continue #end #erode

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#elected #enjoying #fraternity #government #licensed

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children. ↗

— Brian May

#children #hurt #poor #sanctions #weak

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

— Joseph McKenna

#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country. ↗

— John Perkins

#american #come #conclusion #country #course