Prohibited Quotes

74 Prohibited quotes by 62 unique authors

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. — Alison Moyet
Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry… — Mary Virginia Terhune
We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are… — Ibn Hazm
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines — Alejandro Jodorowsky
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really… — Pope John Paul II
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to… — John Marshall
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by… — Gautama Buddha
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
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali
A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why… — Jiang Zemin
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off… — George Carlin
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.… — Arthur Goldberg
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below… — Barbara Tuchman
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet… — Rick Boucher
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
[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
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may… — Townsend Harris
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class,… — Margaret Sanger
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them… — Ali Larijani
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was… — Robert Kennedy
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all… — Bill Vaughan

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