Permitted Quotes
367 quotes by 308 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
— James Bovard
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
— Anthony Burgess
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
— William S. Burroughs
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
— Paul Cezanne
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
— William J. Clinton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Permitted Quotes
308 authors contributed a total of 367 Permitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: