Permissive Quotes

#1. It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

Michael Coren

#2. A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.

Italo Calvino

#4. I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

Edward Abbey

#5. The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

Roy Jenkins

#6. If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Zig Ziglar

#7. Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

Kevin Leman

#8. A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

B.F. Skinner

#9. I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Amy Winehouse

#10. The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

Curt Flood

#11. The wrath of God is inescapably bound up with the love of God. Permissive love which did not act to protect victimized loved ones would inspire no one.

Matt Chandler

#12. We too worried about being permissive. But gradually we began to realize that this approach was permissive only in the sense that all feelings were permitted.

Adele Faber

#13. The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

Richard M. Nixon

#14. [Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy ... They lack an anchor for their real self.

Billy Graham

#15. We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Woody Allen

#16. Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back ... the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.

Billy Graham

#17. Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

Robert Casey

#18. One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

Vikram Sarabhai

#19. I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

Jenny Shipley

#20. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#21. Children do best when parents are neither overly strict nor overly permissive, providing firm structure but also allowing for dialogue, respectful conflict, and compromise.

Lundy Bancroft

#22. Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.

Martin Schulz

#23. My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

John Bolton

#25. We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are,
don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

Joyce Meyer

#26. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.

Meek Mill

#27. When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

Michel Patini

#28. There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

Aaliyah