Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. — James Boswell
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from… — Carl Jung
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain… — Frank Marshall Davis
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. — Len Deighton
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there… — E T A Hoffmann
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of… — Abraham Lincoln
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of… — John Flavel
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to… — Orson Scott Card
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent… — John Tyler
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...… — James A. Garfield
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of… — Ambrose Bierce
There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes… — Carroll Quigley
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days.… — Ira Reiss
[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence. — Aneurin Bevan
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides… — Gaston Bachelard
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any… — B. C. Forbes
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since… — Charles Alexander Eastman

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