Quotes of: Permit Keyword

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 university before taking part in wartime research projects.

John Pople

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beverly Sills

People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.

The Incrementalists

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Man and Superman

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Life on the Mississippi

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

The Prince and the Pauper

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Oliver Tambo

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Ovid

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

Rabih Alameddine

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Tom Hayden

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Thomas Jefferson

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Mike Rutherford

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Nicolaus Copernicus

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Peter Marshall

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Gunter Grass

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Peter Carey

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