Forbidden Quotes

367 quotes by 309 authors

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,… — Karen Armstrong
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and… — Johann Arndt
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the… — David Bowie
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply… — Karel Capek
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The… — Frank Zappa
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm. — Diane Ackerman
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. — Ovid
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was… — Angela Carter
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely… — Mark Twain
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics… — David Deutsch
In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being… — Tertullian
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into… — Strom Thurmond

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