#permit

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorthea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return ↗

— George Washington

#death #permitted #return #traveler #death

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#country #drinking #driving #highways #how

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#art lies #beauty #children #exactly #fact

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#bribery #by the people #for the people #form #government