Sanctity Quotes

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. (William Hazlitt)
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. View quote
Kofi Annan
Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people. View quote
Jennifer Beals
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. View quote
Jimmy Carter
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity. View quote
Georg Brandes
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! View quote
Lea DeLaria
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. View quote
Orrin Hatch
I believe the family is the foundation of America -- and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges. (Mitt Romney)
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. View quote
Otto Weininger
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry. Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the "quality of life" ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I'm a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. View quote
Rick Riordan
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. View quote
Henry Waxman
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life. (Rob Bishop)
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions. View quote
Rahman Baba
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals? View quote
John Grisham
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. View quote
John Boehner
Sanctity is essentially contemplativity: it is the intuition of the spiritual nature of things; profound intuition which determines the entire soul, hence the entire being of man. View quote
Frithjof Schuon