Sanction

Famous quotes containing the word sanction:

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)

“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.”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)