I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
Arthur Keith

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.
Len Deighton

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
Godfrey Reggio

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
Dennis Chavez

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
John Malkovich

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka

If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
Charles W. Pickering

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
John Pople

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

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.
John Blair

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

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
Theodore Dreiser

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin Crisp

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
Ernest Istook

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.
Richard Ben-Veniste