Permissive Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
— Jenny Shipley
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
— Roy Jenkins
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You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.…
— Fleur Adcock
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One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.
— Vikram Sarabhai
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they…
— Peter Drucker
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I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of…
— John Fowles
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
— B.F. Skinner
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We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!
— Woody Allen
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No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits…
— Paulo Freire
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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
— Curt Flood
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I love America, it's a much more permissive place.
— Amy Winehouse
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which…
— Amy Chua
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It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and…
— Stephen Fry
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In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make…
— Chuck Norris
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
— Zig Ziglar
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True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom…
— Pope John Paul II
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand…
— Edward Abbey
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Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because…
— Kevin Smith
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But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have what they want,…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive…
— Pope Benedict XVI
Who Wrote These Permissive Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Permissive Quotes as follows: