Sanction

Famous quotes containing the word sanction:

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

“Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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