Permissiveness Quotes

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

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do.

Permissive legislation is the characteristic of a free people.

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

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

If one wants to pinpoint the causes of the riots, it would be this permissive climate and the misguided compassion of public opinion.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

He who pardons easily invites offense.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

Never complain about what you permit.

Without God all things are permitted.

The community standards in New York are so low that nothing is obscene.

My kids would say I'm strict, but I don't think I am.

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.