Prohibitions Quotes
33 quotes by 29 authors
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.…
— Henry George
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
— Italo Calvino
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Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but…
— Fabrice Hadjadj
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.…
— John T. Flynn
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Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best…
— Michael Chekhov
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living…
— Rowan Williams
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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a…
— E. M. Forster
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set…
— Sri Aurobindo
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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians…
— Roland Allen
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Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from…
— Umar
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew…
— Hugo Black
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
— Bernard Tschumi
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The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future…
— Mark Thornton
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Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and…
— Craig Lancaster
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The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to…
— Israel Shenker
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Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes…
— Emile Durkheim
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Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
— Frank Gaffney
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