Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,… — Karen Armstrong
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. — Theodor Adorno
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man… — Ambrose Bierce
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the… — Theodore Bikel
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. — James Bovard
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. — William S. Burroughs
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. — Paul Cezanne
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The… — Thomas Jefferson
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and… — Chester Himes
The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is… — Isadora Duncan
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in… — Thomas Aquinas
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This… — Irving Kristol
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to… — Oswald Spengler

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