Permissive Society Quotes

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

You grow up faster in a place where anything goes.

True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

What is the cause of the great overflow of Vice in this age

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.