#permission

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ↗

— Prince

#artists #called #companies #compulsory #law

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#black #black and white #could #excited #give

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#anyone #artist #been #else #given

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ↗

— Pat Riley

#guarantees #lose #loss #permission #yourself

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#me #nobody #permission #without

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#city #him #i #kyoto #must

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ↗

— William Temple

#create #creation #did #does #evil

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#authorized #dime #either #endorse #i