#permit

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#bank #come #constitute #grenades #hand

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#area #because #body #coexist #committed

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

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

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#liberty #permits #right

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#balance #dead #injustice #into #lead

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. ↗

— Len Deighton

#believe #books #certain #encouraged #i