Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 294 authors

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all… — Franz Kafka
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This… — Jonathan Kozol
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly… — Lawrence Lessig
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted. — Rush Limbaugh
Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted… — Christian Louboutin
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and… — Alice Miller
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the… — P.J. O'Rourke
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an… — Ayn Rand
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better… — John D. Rockefeller
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and… — Carl Sagan
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to… — Frederick Soddy
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important… — Sonia Sotomayor
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by… — Oswald Spengler
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that… — Steven Spielberg
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? — Barbra Streisand
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across… — Harry S. Truman
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then… — Yann Martel

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