Famous quotes containing the word permit:
“... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“We have not been fair with the Negro and his education. He has not had adequate or ample education to permit him to qualify for many jobs that are open to him.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)