Baltimore Quote by Russell Baker

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and…

— Al Sharpton

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

— Mary Quant

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

— Theodore Kaczynski

“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others, but even…

— Allen W. Wood

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans,…

— Richard V. Allen

“Permissiveness cannot sustain true liberty for long. . . . In Sodom they probably had absolute free speech, but nothing worth saying! On the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

— Quintilian

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

— Ferdinand Marcos

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often…

— Edward Gibbon

If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers,…

— Simon Jenkins

“We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality…

— Neal Boortz

At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it.

— Amul Thapar