Permits

Famous quotes containing the word permits:

“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)

“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)