#permitted

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#after #could #few #given #masses

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. ↗

— Gary Cooper

#horse #kiss #never #permitted #were

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#economic #economic freedom #founded #freedom #government

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#citizens #class citizens #democratic #democratic society #equal

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#anything #between #else #expression #female

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ever #explain #fold #glories #hundred

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go

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