Everything Is Permissible Quotes

#1. Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Kaija Saariaho

#2. Everything is true-Everything is permissible!

Hassan-i Sabbah

#3. Everything is permissible' - but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23).

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

#5. If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#6. It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible ... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

Brian D. McLaren

#7. Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Charles Krauthammer

#8. Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. In New York, everything was permissible. No one cared what you wore, how you looked. Only you cared about those things. And if they didn't worry you, then they didn't matter.

Georgia Clark

#10. Everything's permissible internally.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#11. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. If you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

Eve Arnold

#13. In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Napoleon Bonaparte