Permit Quotes

If an officer is in pursuit [of guerrillas] he would be perfectly justified in retaliating on the farmers among whom they mingle. It is not our wish or policy to destroy the farmers or their farms, but of course there is and must be a remedy for all Evils, if the farmers of a neighborhood encourage or even permit in their midst a set of Guerrillas they cannot expect to escape the necessary consequences.... These principles of war and common sense should be made familiar to the people that they may clearly understand how ... they lay themselves clearly liable to all the risks of war without any of its excitement.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Never complain about what you permit.

The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

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

True repentance does not permit repetition.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.