#permit

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

— George Washington

#death #permitted #return #traveler #death

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

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty

While 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. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#five #hundred #intellectual #intellectual development #least

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#believe #good #holders #just #monopoly

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#debarred #enter #female #houses #nor

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #ask #band #been #better

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#consequences #law #pause #permitting #perspective

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. ↗

— Russell Smith

#indian #permits #sovereign #tribe

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#american #american citizens #call #censors #citizens