#permitted

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. ↗

— James Bovard

#case #law #longer #permitted #president

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#always #destroy #hardly #i #illusions

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

— Gary Cooper

#horse #kiss #never #permitted #were

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#permitted #proved

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#friendship #i #i wish #mankind #may