Permissible Quotes

59 quotes by 55 authors

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible,… — Neal A. Maxwell
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. — Louis Althusser
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. — Alan Paton
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did… — Elias Canetti
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful… — Nelson Mandela
If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing… — Irvin D. Yalom
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion is a belief… — Martin Amis
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism… — Martin Filler
The country of the Two Holy Places has in our religion a peculiarity of its own over the other Muslim countries. In our religion, it… — Osama bin Laden
Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year… — Ezra Taft Benson
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to… — Peter Singer
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence. — Pawan Kalyan
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. — Eric Liu
Everything is permissible but not beneficial. — Unknown Author
A British man came to Sheikh and asked: Why is it not permissible in Islam for women to shake hands with a man? The Sheikh… — Unknown Author
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to… — Barry Goldwater
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. — The Talmud

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