Famous quotes containing the words act and/or allowed:
“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infants reasoning to the grown mans passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)