Permissible Quotes

59 quotes by 56 authors

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
What is permissible is not always honorable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible? — Seneca the Younger
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win… — Spiro T. Agnew
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they… — Niels Henrik Abel
Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. Let the man who is to serve you… — Martin of Tours
Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold… — Miranda Hart
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has… — Alan Paton
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is… — Lewis H. Lapham
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still… — Pope Benedict XVI
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say,… — Robert Fisk
My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times â€” certain set and limited circumstances â€” when it is permissible… — Dan Savage
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a… — Eugene Wigner
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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