The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow…

You are the only one who defines you, so don't ever allow anyone to tell you who you are, or that you are not…

— Anonymous

You have to - you have to allow something to tell you what it wants to be.

— Gord Downie

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts…

— Anderson Cooper

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

— Friedrich Schiller

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

— Maggie Stiefvater

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids…

— Benjamin Tucker

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

— James Madison

“An inscription, dating to the late fifth century B.C., forbids that anyone tan hides or throw litter into the Ilissos, further stipulating that no…

— Anonymous

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful…

— Michel de Montaigne

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

— Bill Dedman

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys…

— Lord Chesterfield

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the…

— Lysander Spooner

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

— Bill Dedman

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and…

— Anatole France

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

— Anonymous