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.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.
or simply:
