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Sanction
Reference material by Wikiquote contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending on context, as the word is an auto-antonym.
Quotes
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
Bernard Baruch, Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
No degree of antiquity can give sanction to a usage bad in itself.
Lord Mansfield, Case of John Money and others (1765), 19 How. St. Tr. 1027.
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem (1938)
External links
Category:Sociology