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We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program,
— Romano L. Mazzoli
A law without sanctions is no law; it is only counsel, or advice.
— Charles Grandison Finney
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
— Jacques Hadamard
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.
— Roger Scruton
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
— Barbara Demick
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
— David Ignatius
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
— Morris Kline
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.
— Rand Paul
Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
— George Washington
One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.
— Ken Wilber
The gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out
— Revilo P. Oliver
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
— Harold Wilson
I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it
— Charlotte Bronte
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
— Dennis Ross
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.
— Jim Steranko
In effect, sanctions take another country's civilian population hostage in order to get its leaders to acquiesce.
— Mike Lofgren
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times ...
— Edward Gibbon
Sanctions are a bad idea.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
— Rand Paul
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
— Elliott Abrams
Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.
— Sergei Lavrov
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
— Barry Goldwater
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
— Jan C. Ting
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
— Helen Clark
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
— Jean Cocteau
We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.
— Denis Halliday
We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.
— Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini
The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.
— Stewart Baker
I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.
— Martin Schulz
Do not sanction an absurdity.
— Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
— Omar Bongo
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
— Najib Razak
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
We don't take a macro view ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
— Robert Pozen
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
— Barack Obama
We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.
— Sergei Lavrov
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
— Mamnoon Hussain
one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
— Geraldine Brooks
China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.
— Li Zhaoxing
Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
— Ron Paul
The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour