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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

Violence, State, Act

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Envy, Feeling, Moral

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Same, Joke

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

Life, Strength, True

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Personal, Assume, Boasting

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Place, Problems, Ourselves

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid

Character, Study, Faithful

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

Democracy, Two, Criticism

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
Vladimir Lenin

Socialism, Shall, Five

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

Democracy, Two, Criticism

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide

Work, Good, Greatest

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Virgil

Meet, Fortune, Advance

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer

Politics, Freedom, Through

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen

Television, Watch, Device

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.
Suze Orman

God, Down, Remember

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
Susan Orlean

Used, Making, Wild

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost

Home, Living, Television

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Charles de Montesquieu

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
Carly Fiorina

Great, Technology, Play

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Rod Stewart

Love, Fool, Heart

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

Beauty, Time, Mistakes

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
Johannes Tauler

God, Heart, Spirit

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike

Government, Either, Madness

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand

God, Him, Quality

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
Sloane Crosley

Power, Freedom, Car

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.
Josephus Daniels

Old, Whatever, Social

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
David Wilkerson

God, Teen, Father

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
Jeff Goodell

Science, Everything, Energy

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare

Happy, Once, Word

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Suzanne Fields

Movies, Learning, Law

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