“When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
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Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model
Speech at 4th Annual Power Up Premiere Gala, Los Angeles, California (7 November 2004) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/speeches/powerup.html.
Honoré de Balzac book A Woman of Thirty
La sainteté des femmes est inconciliable avec les devoirs et les libertés du monde. Emanciper les femmes, c'est les corrompre.
Source: A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years.
“The flower of olden sanctities.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
1867, p. 123.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)
“It seems idolatry with some excuse,
When our forefather Druids in their oaks
Imagined sanctity.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 9-11
“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”
Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
“Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life.”
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942) Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel …
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life. In the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, we all grieved deeply, and expressed outrage at this heinous crime — and rightly so. But many people today are unaware that, as the result of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3.8 million people have lost their lives since 1998.
Are we to conclude that our priorities are skewed, and our approaches uneven?
“Desire, abide, suffer and die unknown for all time; this is true sanctity!”
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
