Cole Porter Quotes

I never forbid myself anything.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

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

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

There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

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

You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

Liberty begets license.