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212 Forbid quotes by 172 unique authors

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one… — Lee Ann Womack
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling… — Elbert Hubbard
If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill… — Unknown Author
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. — Isabel Paterson
Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,… — Martin Luther
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — Swami Vivekananda
Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets… — Gertrude Bell
As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. — Ben Goldacre
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead, — Jean Sibelius
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be… — Henri de Mondeville
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — William J. Brennan
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… — Alexander Hamilton
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
To forbid birth is only quicker murder. — Tertullian
I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son,… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles… — Andrew Jackson
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy… — Maya Angelou
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid. — Otto von Bismarck
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of… — Catherine Booth
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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