sanctity quotes

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization.When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.

-W(illiam) E(wart) Gladstone
  Speech at Edinburgh Foresters'Hall, during the Midlothian Campaign, 26 Nov.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.

- Arthur Meier Schlesinger
  'TheAmerican Revolution Reconsidered', in Political Science Quarterly, Mar.

   The odour of sanctity was clearly discernible from his breath and person.

- Mervyn Wall
  The Unfortunate Fursey.