#permitted

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#approaches #believed #claim #creative #degree

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#enjoyment #experienced #had #heaven #indeed

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#activity #children #lives #our #our lives

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. ↗

— James Boswell

#good #make #only #permitted #power

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#became #chairman #committee #each #i

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cannot #discourage #ever #failures #had

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