Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… — Noam Chomsky
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing… — Adolf Hitler
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's… — Isidore of Seville
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. — Thomas Jefferson
The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression… — G. H. Pember
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,… — Anthony Burgess
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with… — Norman Dodd
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived… — Harry Belafonte
I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly… — Harry Belafonte
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still… — John Malkovich
The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel
The march to the center of Caracas will not be permitted. I will use a hard hand against fascism and intolerance. I declare it. If… — Nicolas Maduro
Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the… — Jared Taylor
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall… — Charles Tupper
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H. L. Mencken
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. — Ambrose Bierce
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… — Thomas Jefferson

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