Permitted Quotes

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

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

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.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.