Top 28 Everything Is Permitted Quotes
#1. If there is no God,
Not everything is permitted to man.
He is still his brother's keeper
And he is not permitted to sadden his brother,
By saying there is no God.
Czeslaw Milosz
#2. Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
Meat Loaf
#3. Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.
Shahin Najafi
#4. It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.
J. Maarten Troost
#5. I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.
Brion Gysin
#6. You used to be brave once, sir, you used to say 'Everything is permitted,' sir, and now you've got so frightened!" Smerdyakov murmured, marveling.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.
Paulo Coelho
#11. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.
Richard M. Rorty
#13. Where other men blindly follow the truth, Remember, nothing is true.
Where other men are limited by morality or law, Remember, everything is permitted.
We work in the dark to serve the light.
We are assassins.
Assassins Creed
#15. Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
Michel Seuphor
#17. All is well, everything is permitted, and nothing is hateful - these are absurd judgments
Albert Camus
#18. If "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," then there is no purpose or grand cosmic scheme to life beyond what we choose to impose or believe. To some this is cynicism. For the Chaos Magician, it is a breath of dizzying freedom.
Phil Hine
#19. Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#20. Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.
Allan Bloom
#21. Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted.
Matthew Scully
#22. I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#23. It is not permitted that we should know everything.
Horace
#24. This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.
Milan Kundera
#25. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1
Max Lucado
#26. Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.
Ayn Rand
#27. The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
Umberto Eco
#28. American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.
Mark Jason Dominus
