Proscribed Versus Quotes

#1. Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Richard John Neuhaus

#3. Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Charles Darwin

#4. We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Iman

#5. Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.

Charles Dickens

#6. Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

#7. In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

Germaine Greer

#8. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Imogen Binnie

#9. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#10. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

Norman Cousins

#11. The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient ... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

Henry Seidel Canby

#12. Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Aaron Levie

#13. On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."

Jon Ronson

#14. The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

Mitt Romney

#15. Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

#16. May you always have a friend that is worth that name. Irish blessing

Faith Lyon

#17. Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

Ingrid Newkirk

#18. I could drink until my problems seemed compact and pretty, something I could admire.

Emma Cline

#19. Then I had to decide if I needed to wear shoes that kicked ass or were good for ass kicking, on account of there's a difference you know. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Janet Evanovich

#20. Still, even without the proscribed horror of nanotech, it was possible to make bugs very small indeed these days.

Anonymous

#21. The general government is proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting religion; and it may be thought to do this, in ascertaining who, and who are not, ministers of the gospel.

James Madison

#22. She thought it would dry his tears and give her some satisfaction as well. It could have worked, I suppose, but the children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.

Toni Morrison

#23. Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

William H. Prescott

#24. That hate is easy, but sometimes love is easy too.

Hannah Harrington

#25. The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

Pope Pius X

#26. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Marquis De Sade