Permit Quotes

614 quotes by 503 authors

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined… — John L. Lewis
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a… — George C. Marshall
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. — Lance Morrow
Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because… — Guy Laliberte
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those… — John F. Kennedy
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body… — Steven Pressfield
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that… — Richard Sibbes
The law often permits what honor prohibits. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally… — Helmut Newton
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver… — Potter Stewart
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its… — Thomas Paine
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an… — Hans Hofmann
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of… — Antonin Scalia
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious… — Chapman Cohen

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