#permit

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

If there is no God, everything is permitted. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#god #permitted

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#permitted #proved

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cheers #criticism #democracy #permits #two

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#change #country #democratic #deserve #happened

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#contains #destructive #envy #feeling #guise

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ↗

— David Frost

#home #invention #living #living room #people

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#after #any #coming #could #decision

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#challenge #i #itself #mass #mass media

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating