(230 quotes found)
“We do not permit composites.. We do not create conversations.”
William Shawn
“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.”
Oswald Spengler
“A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
Charles William Dement
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
Albert Einstein
“Nothing is proved, all is permitted.”
Theodore Dreiser
“They would require a licence and permit and the like,”
Ujjal Dosanjh
“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“We're not going to permit it.”
Bill Schwartz