Top 600 Permitted Quotes & Sayings

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

To some people everything is permitted.

To know all things is not permitted.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

Nothing is true and everything is permitted.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited, except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited.

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

Without God all things are permitted.

Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.