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• It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent… — Joichi Ito
• The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. — Aristotle
• God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. — Anatole France
• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed… — Lactantius
• Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing… — Saint Augustine
• Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward… — William James
• The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in… — Thomas Jefferson
• The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most… — Alexander Hamilton
• If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man,… — Unknown Author
• If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left… — Thomas Jefferson

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