Sanctions Quotes

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

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

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.