Definition of Sanction

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Sanction

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.

Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.

To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

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Sanction Quotations

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 world.
Benjamin Franklin

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand

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.
Edmund Burke

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

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

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
Bobby Scott

Sanction Translations

sanction in Afrikaans is sanksie
sanction in Dutch is sanctioneren, bekrachtigen
sanction in French is sanctionnez, sanctionner, sanctionnons, sanction

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