Permit Quotes

614 quotes by 485 authors

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. — Margaret Chase Smith
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything… — Viola Spolin
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and… — Max Stirner
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty.… — Louis L'Amour
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is… — Marvin J. Ashton
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole… — Pope Pius XI
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows… — Gunter Grass
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. — Fernando Botero
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, donâ€™t see-see only what they have… — Leon Levinstein
Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the… — Michael Novak
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong… — Richard P. Feynman
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. — Dean Karnazes
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American… — Ronald Reagan
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the… — Charles Caleb Colton
If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle

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