Forbidden Quotes

367 Forbidden quotes by 303 unique authors

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams
The funniest things are the forbidden. — Mark Twain
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices… — Emile Durkheim
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating.… — Jean Genet
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom… — Anne Roiphe
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. — Bernard Tschumi
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country. — Unknown Author
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else. — Yotam Ottolenghi
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. — P.J. O'Rourke
I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his… — John Carney
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in… — Barry Eisler
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort.… — Ma Jian
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have… — Philippe Petit
I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really… — Gioconda Belli
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers… — Arthur Henderson
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that… — John Conyers
Mourning is not forbidden, you know. — Simin Daneshvar
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex.… — Melissa de la Cruz
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public… — Bill Clinton
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob — Ayn Rand
There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is… — C.S. Lewis
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. — John Milton
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb
The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of loving… — Sorin Cerin
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the… — Andrea Dworkin

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