The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
I am truly thankful for my health that has permitted me to obtain optimal results in my career.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.
I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.
People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
In my world, the dressing room was sacrosanct. The only time anyone was permitted to take pictures in there was when we had won a trophy.
Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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