Permission Quotes

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

A citizen cannot renounce his allegiance to the United States without the permission of government, to be declared by law;

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

I am polite and I usually always consult them [Congressional leaders]. I don't ask their permission. I just consult them.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Anytime Government gives you permission they let you know that you have permission by giving you a permit or a license. If you have a marriage license, what permission do you have to do now that you did not have permission to do before, who gave you that permission, and who gave them the authority to give you that permission in the first place?

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.