Forbidden Quotes

367 Forbidden quotes by 303 unique authors

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies… — Swami Vivekananda
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is… — Mark Twain
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment,… — George Washington
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best… — Michael Hastings
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride… — C.S. Lewis
Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that… — Deena Metzger
Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. — Ronald Reagan
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of… — Ken Calvert
Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or… — Sigmund Freud
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where… — Ronald Reagan
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge. — C.S. Lewis
Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because… — Dan Wells
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love,… — Lady Gaga
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of… — Barbara Walters
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted. — Friedrich Schiller
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. — Alexander Pope
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have… — Gerrit Smith
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be… — Stefan Zweig
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong.… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit… — Daniel Berrigan
... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant… — James Madison
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. — Margaret Fuller
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary,… — Pope Pius XII

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