Permission
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
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Permission Quotations
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.
Henry L. Stimson
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
Stevie Nicks
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Thor Heyerdahl
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley
Permission Translations
permission in Danish is tilladelse, enighed
permission in Dutch is fiat, goedvinden, toestemming
permission in French is permission, autorisation
permission in German is Erlaubnis
permission in Italian is nullaosta, licenza
permission in Spanish is aprobacion, permiso
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