Permits Quotes

215 quotes by 189 authors

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. — Sigmund Freud
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not… — Paul Cezanne
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only… — John Rawls
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it… — Rowan Williams
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to… — Joan D. Chittister
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is… — Theodore Roosevelt
Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will… — Frederick Lenz
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is… — C.S. Lewis
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment,… — Diane Ackerman
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise… — Erich Fromm
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. — David Frost
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but… — John Kenneth Galbraith
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to… — Andre Gide
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school… — Sloane Crosley
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a… — Robert Delaunay
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not… — Carly Fiorina
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. — E. M. Forster

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