Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be… — John Taylor Gatto
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. — Godfrey Reggio
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to… — Philip Caputo
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself. — Seneca the Younger
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion.Â All the neglect and bad education… — Charles Loring Brace
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. — Grady Booch
In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend… — John Pople
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job… — Charles W. Pickering
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence… — John Stott
I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals. — Olivia Newton-John
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted — H. L. Mencken
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. — Jorge Luis Borges
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us… — Elaine Scarry
Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current… — Cass Sunstein
Nothing is true and everything is permitted. — Hassan-i Sabbah
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world… — Abraham Lincoln
I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary… — Gottfried Leibniz

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