Forbidden Quotes - Page 18

• Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Los Angeles, Charm

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• For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Law

  "On the Priesthood", Book II,

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• For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

  David Mamet

  Written

  David Mamet (2008). “The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews”, p.169, Schocken

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• All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

  Henry James

  Rome, Branches, Might

  Henry James (2016). “The Turn of the Screw”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Children, Believe

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• We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Daughter, Children, Son

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• Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Growing Up, Boys

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.19, Routledge

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• When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

  Cal Thomas

  Letting Go, Real, Mean

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• Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Compulsory

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• There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Law, Hatred

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William A. Haussmann, Maximilian August Mügge, John McFarland Kennedy, Anthony Mario Ludovici (1927). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

  Martin Luther

  Firsts, Sin, Good Work

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Attitude, Hate

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• We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

  Savielly Tartakower

  Wise, Variation, Chess

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• There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Different, Bears

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

  Brassai

  Wall, Safe Haven, Voice

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• I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

  Sarah Lacy

  Art, Passion, Frustration

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• Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

  Marie de Gournay

  Sex, Reader, Ifs

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• Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Soul, Lust, Secret

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

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• A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.

  Trevor Hall

  Eye, Heart, Swim

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• Break open the forbidden happiness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Happiness, Break

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• What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

  Horace

  Acceptance, Lighters

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• A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1386, Manonmani Publishers

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