For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~By Muqtada al Sadr ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
~By Ovid ~
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
~By Usher Raymond ~
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
~By Mark Twain ~
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
~By Harvey Cox ~
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
~By John McCarthy ~
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~By Voltaire ~
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
~By Johann Arndt ~
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
~By Amy Tan ~
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
~By Karel Capek ~
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
~By David Deutsch ~
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
~By Lars von Trier ~
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
~By Friedensreich Hundertwasser ~
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
~By Ken Calvert ~
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
~By Barbara Walters ~
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
~By Gene Simmons ~
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
~By Alain Robert ~
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
~By Mike Tyson ~
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
~By Ken Kesey ~
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~By Tacitus ~
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
~By John Conyers ~
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.
~By Kerry King ~
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
~By William Glasser ~
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
~By Mark Twain ~
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
~By Jean Genet ~
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