#permit

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#bear #cannot #else #everything #evolution

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#liberty #permits #right

May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland. ↗

— Wladyslaw Anders

#free #god #independent #may #permit

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#laws #liberty #permit #right #whatever

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorthea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#come #conversation #cosmic #demand #i

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#any #first #fork #i #into

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

— George Washington

#death #permitted #return #traveler #death