Permissible Quotes

59 Permissible quotes by 55 unique authors

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die. — Mencius
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but… — Swami Vivekananda
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that… — Adolph Ochs
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty. — Mao Zedong
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at… — Garrison Keillor
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and… — C.S. Lewis
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're… — William Least Heat-Moon
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write… — Claud Cockburn
By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and… — John Cornyn
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics… — Meg Greenfield
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.' — Criss Jami
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible. — Charles Krauthammer
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

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