Forbidden Quotes

367 Forbidden quotes by 303 unique authors

The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we… — George Q. Cannon
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England. — Winston Churchill
To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth. — Samuel Beckett
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies… — Henry David Thoreau
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before.… — Elie Wiesel
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not… — Fran Lebowitz
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. — Saint John Chrysostom
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what… — Octavio Paz
Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good. — Louise Bogan
Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. — Alain Robert
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak… — Jennifer Weiner
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to… — Lawrence Wright
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what… — Maximus the Confessor
To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two… — Muhammad Abduh
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second,… — Michel de Certeau
Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you… — Martin Luther
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because… — Dorothy Allison
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be… — Alan Bradley
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these… — Harry Browne
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max… — Dennis Miller

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