Quotes of Permission - somelinesforyou

“ No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ”

- John Milton

“ The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ”

- Grace Hopper

“ Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need. ”

- Hallesby

“ I've applied to the humor commission for a license to have humor in the book. I haven't been given permission so far. I'm awaiting their verdict. ”

- Rupert Holmes

“ Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ”

- William Allen White

“ Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ We ask advice but we mean approbation. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ The weaker the man in authority… the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ”

- Austin O’Malley

“ As one (federal Center for Medicaid and Medicare) official told me... getting approval of a Medicaid waiver without the governors support would be challenging, but not impossible. ”

- Greg Moore

“ Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. ”

- John Fletcher

“ Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. ”

- Liv Ullmann

“ There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed. ”

- Rose Kennedy

“ Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege. ”

- Ricardo Lagos

“ The use of sanctions can only be authorized by the Security Council with prudence in light of actual situations. ”

- Li Zhaoxing

“ Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. ”

- Montesquieu

“ If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel. ”

- Will Kommen

“ Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. - The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. ”

- Bill Hybels

“ There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ The star approval in OK! makes it less sleazy on one level and therefore less interesting. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. ”

- John Pilger

“ 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. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? ”

- Joseph Howe
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