The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. — Thomas Hobbes
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. — Plato
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many. — Publilius Syrus
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] — Ovid
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. — William Safire
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me. — Cesc Fabregas
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. — Joy Page
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. — Charles Krauthammer
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. — Louise Hay
Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding. — James K. A. Smith
Permission Image Quotes
Dont look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
Asking Permission Quotes
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
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Don't give other people permission to ruin your day.
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. — Tim Berners-Lee
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents. — Gary Larson
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. — Unknown
The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission. — Kerry James Marshall
I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie! — Kevin Hart
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions. — William O. Douglas
Give Yourself Permission Quotes
When you fall in love with the process rather than the end product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. — James Clear
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story — Iyanla Vanzant
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. — James Clear
Today, you can choose to be in good mood, or a bad mood. Give yourself permission to be happy every day.
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel. — Sonia Choquette
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. — Price Pritchett
If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. — Jay Baer
Dont give other people permission to ruin your day.
Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. — Greg McKeown
Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities — Danica Patrick
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future. — Beverly Engel
It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice. — Kris Carr
No Permission Quotes
When you preserve a person’s autonomy by clearly giving them permission to say 'No' to your ideas, the emotions calm, the effectiveness of the decisions go up, and the other party can really look at your proposal. — Chris Voss
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody. — U.G. Krishnamurti
No one can take advantage of you without your permission. — Ann Landers
The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in your quest for greatness is our own.
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. — Elizabeth Strout
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist! — Pope Leo X
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
You don't need anyone's permission to be happy.
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis
Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty. — Marie Corelli
I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world. — Mahesh Bhatt
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission. — William Carlos Williams
Without Your Permission Quotes
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. — Prince
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. — Edward Burnett Tylor
Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission. — Rick Warren
You don't need anyone's permission to be happy
Nothing can be done to you without your permission. You are under contract at every level. With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity. This is your world. — Bryant H. McGill
Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties. — Frank Zappa
My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as seen from a moving jet: it's disappearing over the horizon with or without your permission. — Frank Schaeffer
If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop. — Mallory Ortberg
Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission — Ricky Gervais
To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place. — Rick Welts
Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission. — Zig Ziglar
You Don't Need Permission Quotes
You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky — Banksy
If you're a strong female, you don't need permission. — Lady Gaga
Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them! — Eric Thomas
You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else. — Larry Page
It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission. — Jenny Downham
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it. — Lance Henriksen
What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. With acting you're really beholden to everyone else. — Leigh Whannell
You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be — Hayley Williams
There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. — Kris Carr
I Don't Need Permission Quotes
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface. — Sayings
People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be. — Gretchen Mol
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it! — Bill Watterson
But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done. — Bob Kerrey
Consent Quotes
Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life. — John G. Lake
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. — Joseph Murphy
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others. — Christopher Columbus
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. — Jan Hus
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government. — Thomas Jefferson
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. — Jefferson Davis
Every single night our soul is taken, and every single night the Angel asks before bringing it back, "Ya Allah what about this one?" "Do You want to send it back?" Do You want to pull the plug or should we keep the Ruh (soul)?" And every night Allah gives permission to the Angel to let us live one more time. " — Nouman Ali Khan
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented. — Mas Oyama
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission — Grace Hopper
The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one – which means you have permission to stop engaging in it. — Oliver Burkeman
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?' — Terry Pratchett
It's not something that I, you know, any part of it I endorse one way or the other, but I do think that it ought to be permissible in this country to question official narratives. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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
Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us. — Graham Cooke
With customers' permission, fintech firms have increasingly turned to data aggregators to 'screen scrape' information from financial accounts. — Jerome Powell
I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal. — Jake Paul
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. — Zig Ziglar
Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service. — Marshall Field
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births. — John Holdren
Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom. — Quinn Cummings
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does. — Byron Katie
Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator. — Khurram Murad
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever. — Ivan Turgenev
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. — Mahatma Gandhi
Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action. — Dorothy Morrison
You can’t know that things will turn out all right. The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one – which means you have permission to stop engaging in it. — Oliver Burkeman
I've seen news organizations outright just take photos from Instagram and use it for news without credit, without permission. — Tim Pool
Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play. — Tim Brown
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
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. — Louis Althusser
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