Permit Quotes

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

“Living happily is a matter of not permitting one's challenges to interfere with one's daily blessings.”

“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”

“How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and the greatest number of other creatures were supposed to be asleep! Was it because we were only permitted to catch a fleeting glimpse of those great bodies and then only in the mysterious time of a dream world, those great bodies about which man had only the slightest knowledge but perhaps one day would be permitted to examine more closely? Or was it permitted for the great majority of people to gaze at the starry firmament only in brief, sleepless moments so that the splendor wouldn't become mundane, so that the greatness wouldn't be diminished?”

“[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return”

“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”

“If there is no God,Not everything is permitted to man.He is still his brother's keeperAnd he is not permitted to sadden his brother,By saying there is no God.”

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”

“To be free from destruction mindset of sin is to permit the lordship of Christ”

“Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”