Forbids Quotes

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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the… — Joichi Ito
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. — Aristotle
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. — Anatole France
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but… — Lactantius
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness… — William James
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public… — Thomas Jefferson
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished… — Alexander Hamilton
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine
How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the… — Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a… — Charles Baudelaire
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft,… — Albert J. Nock
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Love forbids you not to love. — Umberto Giordano
Modesty forbids what the law does not. — Seneca the Younger

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