Top 100 Quotes About Forbids

#1. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]

George Orwell

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#2. God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

John Vianney

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#3. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

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#4. Love forbids you not to love.

Umberto Giordano

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#5. The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.

Anatole France

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#6. After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

Tim Johnson

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#7. A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you're being stoned.

Ayn Rand

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#8. There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.

Jenny Offill

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#9. Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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#10. Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Richard M. Weaver

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#11. I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind

Andrea L'Artiste

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#12. The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Horace

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#13. The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Albert J. Nock

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#14. Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#15. My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#16. I don't have a problem with a world full of vampires and zombies but with one where the law forbids me from shooting them.

Daniel Marques

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#17. Even as the law uncovers sin and forbids it, it does not provide the power to subdue it.

John Bunyan

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#18. Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#19. My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#20. Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.

John De Ruiter

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#21. Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel De Montaigne

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#22. I have read or been told that in a book of etiquette of the seventeenth century the very first rule forbids you to tell your dreams to other people, since they cannot possibly be of interest to them.

Isak Dinesen

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#23. ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

Bill Dedman

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#24. The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

Larry Flynt

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#25. It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Michel De Montaigne

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#26. Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Saint Augustine

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#27. He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

Seneca The Younger

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#28. Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Lord Chesterfield

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#29. Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

Bill Dedman

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#30. Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

George Herbert Mead

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#31. The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Giacomo Casanova

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#32. The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine

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#33. The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Thomas Jefferson

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#34. Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it's plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

Chila Woychik

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#35. Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Roland Barthes

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#36. It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;

Xenophon

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#37. Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.

Michel De Montaigne

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#38. The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Alexander Hamilton

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#39. The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

Aristotle.

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#40. Heaven forbids that man should know
What change tomorrow's fate may bring.

Statius

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#41. Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.

Karl R. Popper

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#42. Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

Lew Wallace

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#43. God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

Anatole France

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#44. The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

James Madison

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#45. In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

Anthony Marra

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#46. The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#47. Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Edward Snowden

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#48. The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

Horace

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#49. His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

Maggie Stiefvater

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#50. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#51. It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moliere

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#52. Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Baruch Spinoza

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#53. Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours?

George Sand

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#54. The law often allows what honor forbids.

Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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#55. Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

Mason Cooley

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#56. We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

William Hague

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#57. while the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust." He

Eric Metaxas

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#58. Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

John Steinbeck

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#59. Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

Colin Powell

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#60. And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head

Linda Grant

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#61. Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

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#62. The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#63. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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#64. A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate Chopin

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#65. The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

Rousas John Rushdoony

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#66. Biology enables, Culture forbids.

Yuval Noah Harari

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#67. Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

Lysander Spooner

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#68. Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.

Pat Robertson

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#69. This doctrine of necessity in universality means that there is an essence to the universe which forbids relationships beyond itself, as a violation of its rationality. Speculative philosophy seeks that essence.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#70. A person is "too conservative" if his conscience forbids something that I think is acceptable.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

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#71. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

John Calvin

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#72. God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy.

A.W. Tozer

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#73. This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.

Khaled Hosseini

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#74. There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#75. The new law forbids foreign funding for imams and mosques, a restriction that does not apply to Christian or Jewish places of worship.

Anonymous

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#76. Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Michel De Montaigne

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#77. It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito

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#78. A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

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#79. I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

James Anthony Froude

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#80. It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Potter Stewart

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#81. The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris.

Anatole France

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#82. The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself upon him already in times of peace, namely, that the state forbids him to do wrong not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.

Sigmund Freud

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#83. What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them?

Michael Schiefelbein

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#84. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#85. Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Moliere

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#86. I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Andrew Jackson

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#87. My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Michel De Montaigne

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#88. This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

Antonin Scalia

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#89. It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

Maimonides

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#90. I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Benjamin Tucker

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#91. The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

Josephus

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#92. A good rule of thumb is 'Biology enables, culture forbids.' Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It's culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others.

Yuval Noah Harari

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#93. Eternity forbids thee to forget.

Lord Byron

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#94. Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

Friedrich Schiller

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#95. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Mencius

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#96. Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Saint Francis De Sales

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#97. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

Christopher Hitchens

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#98. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

C. G. Jung

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#99. The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#100. Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.

Michel De Montaigne

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