Famous quotes containing the words act and/or allowed:
“I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 20:15.