Permit quotes
89 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented."
"There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can."
"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
"If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us"
"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed"
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"We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose."
"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit."
"Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology."
"Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things."
"Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis."
"The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science."
"Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself."
"It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise."
"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
"The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage."
"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."
"I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing."
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."
"Science does not permit exceptions."
"God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good."
"Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading"
"I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it."
"We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us"
"Drop dead-but first get permit"
"In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live."
