Permissiveness Quotes

#1. Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Thomas Szasz

#3. The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Francis Arinze

#4. What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

Judith Crist

#6. Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Russell Baker

#7. The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

Emilio Pucci

#8. People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

Mary Quant

#9. I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Ginger Rogers

#10. The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Ferdinand Marcos

#11. It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

Theodore Kaczynski

#12. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#13. The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you ... an escape.

Davy Jones

#15. The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#16. Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

KRS-One

#17. Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
"Why are they all high-calorie foods?

Richelle Mead

#18. 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.

Aaron Sorkin

#19. The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.

Leonard Nimoy

#20. I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

Poppy Montgomery

#21. You know ... You're still my boss ... Which means ... This is sexual harassment ...
Oh really? I guess I'll have to fire you then.

Lexi Cubbins

#22. When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

James Agee

#23. Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.

Terry Pratchett

#24. I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

Glen Duncan

#25. There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

Noam Chomsky

#26. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#27. I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I

Simon Strantzas

#28. I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Dave Eggers