To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it suppl...ies a sanction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fa...ult for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or societ...y.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction..., to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetti...ng and accursed principle of action--that the end will sanction any means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and pol...itical discrimination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 wo...rld.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »