Forbidden Quotes
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Forbidden things have a secret charm
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful
Benjamin Franklin
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful
Benjamin Franklin
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde
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The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psycholo...
Robert Anton Wilson
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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.
Bill Lovejoy
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This lust for beauty is a terrible thing. I`ve forbidden her from ever going to a cosmetic surgeon again. It is something we have agreed to for the sake of our marriage [on his wife, Melanie Griffith, having more plastic surgery].
Antonio Banderas
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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.
Andrea Dworkin
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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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.
Daniel Berrigan
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Andreu Guarneri
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There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It`s a matter of how much and how often.
Kim Allen
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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.
Alireza Jafarzadeh
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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`.
John McCarthy
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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.
Jean Genet
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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.
Stefan Zweig
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Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.
Andy Gomarsall
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It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
Akarika Dawn
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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.
Andrew Neff
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I`m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Mike Tyson
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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.
Gene Simmons
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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.
Alan Rotatori
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
Lars von Trier
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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.
Karel Capek
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Alvin Wright
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especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.
Alexandra Day
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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`kno...
Kerry King
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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.
Barbara Walters
