Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)