Allowed

Famous quotes containing the word allowed:

    “About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The people inside have no water
    and are never allowed to touch.
    They crack like macadam.
    They are mute.
    They do not cry help
    except inside....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)