#permitted

If there is no God, everything is permitted. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#god #permitted

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

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#armies #defensive #endlessly #enemy #field

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

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#about #men #obsessed #only #permitted