Quotes of Forbidden - somelinesforyou

“ It is unlawful for men to know what may be tomorrow. ”

- Publius Papinius Statius

“ The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Iraq's conduct ensured that no progress was able to be made in either the fields of disarmament or accounting for Iraq's prohibited weapons program. ”

- Richard Butler

“ How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! ”

- Anatole France

“ Things forbidden have a secret charm. ”

- Tacitus

“ Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ”

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

“ It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ”

- Anatole France

“ Forbidden things have a secret charm. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ”

- Arthur Goldberg

“ We always long for forbidden things, k and desire what is denied us. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Things forbidden have a secret charm. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ He that is drunken... Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. ”

- George Herbert

“ Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. ”

- Ludwig von Mises

“ Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY. ”

- T. H. White

“ The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. ”

- Libby Houston

“ I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. ”

- Stephen Wright

“ Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington. ”

- John Pilger

“ There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. ”

- Albert Camus

“ We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Morality is contraband in war. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. ”

- Clark Kerr

“ When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low. ”

- George Fox

“ If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. ”

- Ezra

“ I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me. ”

- Albert Finney

“ They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ”

- Bud Abbott

“ This is unheard of... Talking to Israel was taboo in Pakistan. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ”

- Rebecca West
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