Sanctions Quotes

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

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Work, Character

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press

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• 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

  Country, War, Pay

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• If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Law, Answers

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Science, Technology

  "CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2015.

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• We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

  Robert Mugabe

  Europe, Zimbabwe, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Cheese

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

  Brian May

  Hurt, Children, Glitter

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• Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Death, Stories, Storytelling

  "Illuminations".

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• Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Agreement, Talking, People

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• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  Omar Bongo

  Economic Sanctions, Achieve, Results

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• No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

  Abdul Kalam

  Mind

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• I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

  George Galloway

  Children, War, Desire

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• Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Law, Punishment

  The Federalist no. 15 (1788)

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

  Charles Dickens

  Faith, Men, Moral

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.539

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Democracy, Intimidation

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, Jobs, Climate

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• The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Numbers

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• 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

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

  Ralph Nader

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Campaign Finance, Regulation

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• Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Historical, Literature

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• I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

  Dennis A. Ross

  East, Chemical Weapons, Counselor

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• Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Issues, Rights

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