Sentence examples for everything was permitted from inspiring English sources
A land where he could be his true, appetitive self and everything was permitted.
Suddenly everything was permitted and he became devoted to the pleasures of the flesh ("My true church is a whorehouse").
But on the principle that operated before the HRA, that everything was permitted in law except that which was expressly forbidden, telephone tapping could not be declared unlawful.
Everything is for sale and everything is permitted?
Now, everything is permitted and nothing is heard.
The conventional view is that Machiavelli believed that since people are brutes then everything is permitted.
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted," Sabbah is supposed to have said (and was so quoted by Nietzsche).
(This is a version of the Dostoyevskian fear that without God everything is permitted).
Here at The Foundry, in true Burroughs style, "everything is permitted".
A little of "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" goes a long way for many readers, including me.
