Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 294 authors

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a… — John Blair
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by… — Alva Myrdal
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception… — Dora Russell
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. — Nguyen Cao Ky
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn… — Heinrich Schliemann
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the… — Maria Monk
Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make… — Robert Walpole
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith
A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to… — Timothy Zahn
Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is… — Pope Shenouda III
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not… — Dennis Kucinich
Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they… — Thomas Frank
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob — Ayn Rand
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. — Doug Larson
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses,… — Thomas Paine
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits… — Eric Idle
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose… — Ambrose Bierce
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. — Oscar Wilde

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294 authors contributed a total of 367 Permitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: