Permission Quotes

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page

Yourself, Give, Dream

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Give, Same

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper

Often, Ask, Easier

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush

America, Security, Seek

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Time, Wish, Wait

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
A. B. Yehoshua

Keep, Lives, Questions

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna Ciccone

Poor, Another, Whose

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
Julie Walters

Age, Yourself, Give

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

Saying, May, Made

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
Stevie Nicks

Life, Father, Fight

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett

Mind, Nothing, Except

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
Edward Norton

Enjoy, Free, Acting

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley

Yourself, Giving, Lose

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
Alice Cooper

Music, Found, Painting

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
Barbara Feldon

Good, Best, Alone

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
Graham Nash

Nice, Control, Sometimes

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper

Good, Idea, Ahead

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Thor Heyerdahl

Friendly, Security, Military

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
Patrick Stewart

Time, Different, Two

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
Jello Biafra

Live, Put, Point

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.
Jello Biafra

Done, Band, Behind

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.
Sandra Lee

Life, Time, Yourself

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
Rita Dove

Feeling, Book, Place

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.
Sherri Shepherd

Yourself, Someone, Person

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.
Sherri Shepherd

Work, Mother, Yourself

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
William Temple

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter

Society, Maturity, Physical

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