Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Freedom of choice for women, at the expense of the caring, warmth, and sensitivity to others so often associated with them, may be empty. In the thrust to redefine male and female roles, women must not become men; nor can men be permitted the continual dehumanization of their roles.”
—Kathleen Weibel (b. 1945)
“For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. And what I want, they are not permitted to want!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)