Forbid Quotes

212 Forbid quotes by 172 unique authors

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid… — Thomas Sowell
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. — Jock Sturges
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that… — Rufus Wainwright
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality… — George Washington
Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid,… — J C Watts
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. — Francis Bacon
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. — Michel de Montaigne
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. — Kurt Vonnegut
I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery. — Leonard Cohen
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we… — Saint Augustine
That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone… — Nicholas Sparks
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon
I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a… — Wendy Mass
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .… — Thomas Jefferson

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