Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but… — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable...… — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
