Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 294 authors

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… — John Ruskin
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what… — Octavio Paz
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny… — Edgar Friedenberg
We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told… — Charles Lindbergh
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. — Natan Sharansky
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what… — Maximus the Confessor
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second,… — Michel de Certeau
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture,… — Charles Portis
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is… — Ben Lindsey
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested… — Arthur Keith
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may… — Dennis Chavez
My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk… — Joan Fontaine
Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria,… — Timothy Garton Ash
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted… — John Herschel
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and… — Catharine MacKinnon
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught;… — William Hughes Mearns
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion

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