Culture Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

— Hod Lipson

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

— Murray Gell-Mann

There are certain practices that may be historically acceptable to some people but that have no place in our culture.

— Damian Green

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

— Arthur Balfour

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

— Evan Esar

It appears that the general consensus is that the more something is forbidden, the more people want to do it.

— Anonymous

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

— Friedrich Schiller

To some people everything is permitted.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries…

— Alan Dershowitz

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

— Li Hongzhi

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

— Bernard Madoff