Quotes About Permitted

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

God's mercy for mankind is limitless," Elijah continued, "but He will not permit evil to go on devouring the good forever. That would not be mercy.

A symbolic system is like a game in that it provides a separate reality, a world of its own where one can perform actions that are permitted to occur in that world, but that would not make much sense anywhere else.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

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

It is our willThat thus enchains us to permitted ill—We might be otherwise—we might be allWe dream of happy, high majestical.Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek,But in our mind?

They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.