Permission Quotes

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. (Grace Hopper)
You can't hurt me without my permission. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
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. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
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. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Hope does not leave without being given permission. View quote
Rick Riordan
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. View quote
William Lilly
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. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
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. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission. (Lora Leigh)
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. View quote
Grace Hopper
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
William O. Douglas
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. View quote
Robert Jordan
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. View quote
William Carlos Williams
You are an adult, and you can dress up whenever you want to. You don't need permission anymore! If you wake up next Tuesday, and you feel like being Batman, go for it! And then you go to work, and your boss will look up and go "who are you," and you can say..."I am Batman. That's who I am, who are you?" View quote
Lewis Black
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world. View quote
Henry Miller
Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For "how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?" View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. View quote
Robert Blair
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. (Anatoly Chubais)
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. View quote
Scott Lynch
It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman. View quote
Lindsey Graham
It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. View quote
Arnold Bennett