Law Quote by Slavoj Žižek

“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: "Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with…

— Slavoj Zizek

“A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings…

— H G Wells

“None of the great religions have done more than exclude, throw out a long range of prohibitions. But prohibitions create the desire they are…

— Lawrence Durrell

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

— Philip Sidney

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

“Hence we see the emptiness of all those rhapsodies of commonplace morality, which consist in the taking of such names as lust, cruelty, and…

— Jeremy Bentham

“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened,…

— Oliver Sacks

“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The problem is that most things in life that are pleasurable are usually illegal, immoral or fattening,”

— Ashwin Sanghi