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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand

The company's channel-stuffing and use of manipulative accounting artifices warrants a severe civil sanction that will act as a deterrent for other public companies.

Linda Thomsen

I think the general feeling in England will be one that the sanction is far too lenient, and I would be one of those who thinks that way.

Gordon Taylor

We strongly think each child should receive the support they are due. But we also understand there are going to be some deadbeat dads or parents for whom, if they had an opportunity, an alternative sanction other than prison would be a good option.

Andrea Dean

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

George Santayana

If we are informed that they are not in compliance then we will investigate and take the appropriate corrective action, ... The only sanction is that the contract would be suspended. That's the only sanction that the law provides.

John Bowen

If I have to allow censorship in order to do business there, then that's what I have to do. It's called capitalism. If [the U.S. government] felt so strongly about China, why isn't the government doing something about Tibet or sanctioning China because of its human-rights violations.

Mukul Krishna

[EU sanctions] would affect U.S. importers [those products] first. But if the EU retaliates [by imposing its own trade tariffs] it could hurt any company [in the import-export business]. We don't know which categories they would choose to sanction.

Lee Greenbaum

The Court finds that the only possible sanction ... is to strike the Defendant's pleadings and enter a default (judgment) for the plaintiffs.

Robert Bailey

A player whose only offence in the past five years was a financial sanction will be eligible for a five-year good record.

Adrian Anderson

It's the political equivalent of the death penalty, ... We should not use the ultimate sanction when there is an alternative at hand.

William Delahunt

This hunger strike has absolutely no sanction of the party. In fact, it is something against the party's advice. Something of this magnitude has to be carried out with permission of the party's national president.

Harsh Vardhan

We're thrilled with it. We felt that the circumstances of the cases warranted the minimum possible sanction under the rules and we're glad that USADA agreed.

Howard Jacobs

The only possible sanction would be a cutoff of Title 1 funds, and that would be a very significant sanction.

Clint Bolick

That's a factor for the panel to consider in determining a number of different issues, primarily sanction.

Jonathan Coughlin

We believe Knotty Head has the potential to be a significant development in the Green Canyon area. With continued drilling success, our plan would be to sanction a development project within the next 24 months.

Charlie Fischer

If you're the champion and you get beat, the fighter who wins is the new champion. It's very straightforward. We offer fighters an alternative, and we don't strip them of their belts, and we don't charge sanctioning fees. It's very simple.

Nigel Collins

There is no tougher rule than this. There is no greater sanction than being expelled from school.

John Serino

The normal sanction - if you can prove that someone has tested positive - is a two-year ban, but what we have here cannot be used as proof.

Hein Verbruggen

ZANU-PF leaders seemed to sanction the use of violence and intimidation against political opponents and contributed significantly to the climate of fear so evident during the election campaign.

Pierre Schori

Economics was one reason we decided to sanction again. For the most part our cars have pretty much stayed IMCA legal but some of the stuff here was getting pricey. The change in the claim rule to include the swap option was another reason. The driver getting claimed will still go home with a motor if he chooses to.

Jack Nelson

They're going to have to come up with a sanction that is equivalent to the problem, and the problem is serious.

Arthur Caplan

It is imperative that the ultimate sanction be available for those who have committed these crimes.

John Ashcroft

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The way NASCAR is structured, with the independentness of the sanctioning body and the car owner, there's not a way for us to do that now, even if we desired.

Mike Helton

The Asian Tour and European Tour would like to announce that both Tours have reached an amicable agreement to jointly sanction the Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia Open and Singapore Masters.

Louis Martin

They (USADA) will say to the athletes, 'right, we believe there's a doping offense on this day, our sanction is two years (ban)' or whatever they want to give them.

Nick Davies

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

George Santayana

The whole thing is a scam. Boxing fans are the dumbest fans in the world to accept it. The titles only have meaning because people say they do. The emperor has no clothes. The sanctioning bodies and their titles are fraudulent.

Mike Silver

The Catholic laity doesn't know what priests the Vatican is being asked to sanction. They don't know what the bishops are recommending. We don't know why some get no sanctions, some get minimal sanctions and some get removed from the priesthood. If sanctions are imposed, it is often months before it's announced. And there seems to be absolutely no monitoring of these prayer and penance guys.

David Clohessy

I feel that, politically, they cannot sanction the fact that Canada is taking a different perspective, and that we're much closer to a European model when it comes to drug policy reform, ... I think there are a lot of Americans who would like to … adopt more of a Canadian approach on a number of things, whether it's health care or equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, or drug policy.

Libby Davies

What the new law does is allow people to drink alcohol in public at a different range of times, with the threat of instant sanction if they misbehave.

Tessa Jowell

At no time did I sanction perjury.

Henry Hyde

It really requires joint intervention (with the U.S. Federal Reserve), and no U.S. official is going to sanction that in a presidential election year.

Claudio Piron

Society isn't really 100 percent behind aggressive sanctioning of people who participate in victimless crimes.

Jon'a Meyer

In arriving at a sanction, the disciplinary board determined serious harm had resulted to White's clients.

Kateri Walsh

The purpose of the attack on July 27th (1996) was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

Eric Rudolph

We had assured the government that he will return back home immediately after the conference but they declined to sanction his trip.

Emmanuel Mwamba

As long as the prospect of sanctioning 4 million barrels per day of Iranian oil is out there, the Iranian situation, in our view, will be the front and center issue that will command market attention.

Edward Meir