Quotes About Permitted

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Deference to the military by political leaders in World War I had permitted the senseless battles of attrition on the Western Front.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Such streets need controls to defend them from the ruin that completely permissive diversity might indeed bring them. But the controls needed are not controls on kinds of uses. The controls needed are controls on the scale of street frontage permitted to a use. This is so obvious and so ubiquitous a city problem that one would think its solution must be among the concerns of zoning theory. Yet the very existence of the problem is not even recognized in zoning theory.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

The word 'catastrophe' is not permitted as long as there is danger of catastrophe turning to doom.

So although in one language, humankind is forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, in the other it is not only permitted, it is encouraged. That is precisely what that goddamn tree is there for, for humankind to suck from its fruit, and suck and suck and suck and suck, thirty times a day if necessary.

My children, it is permitted you in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.

If Christ played doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity.

She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

Hast thou permitted worldliness, ambition, greediness of study, to eat up other duties, the duties wherein thou oughtest to hold constant communion with God, for some long season?

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

Showing off was permitted, even encouraged, only if the result reflected well on your family, their friends, and your collective ancestors.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

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

Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.