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«Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
existentialism, hero, saint, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«[The] council not only sanctioned reform, it accelerated it. What this meant was that Catholics tried to solve the riddle of religion and modernity overnight.»
Author: Jay P. Dolan
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
accelerate, accelerated, Catholics, council, modernity, riddle, sanctioned, The Council
«A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
enjoying, fraternities, fraternity, licensed, privileged, sanctioned
«Evil requires the sanction of the victim.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
requires, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions, The Victim, victim
«I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| Keywords:
democracies, dictatorships, hatreds, propagated, propagates, propagating, sanction, sanctioned, stalked, stalking, stalks, undying
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
partnership, partnerships, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
established, injustices, sanctioned, sanctions
«Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
lamentable, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Call Me, dearly, endurable, posterity, put up, render, sanctioned, The Genius, title
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