Forbidden Quotes - Page 4

• The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Next, You Again, Knows

  Jupiter Hammon, Oscar Wegelin (1970). “America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”

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• The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

  Peter Medawar

  Thinking, Law, Information

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

  Erica Jong

  Realizing

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Choices, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.205, Penguin

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Character, Love Is, Two

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

  Ovid

  Life Changing, Inspiration, Desire

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• The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

  Tina Fey

  Dressing Up, Comedy, Dressings

  "Tina Fey Says a '30 Rock' Reunion Would Only Happen in Imax" by Emily Zelmer, www.elle.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

  Sam Kinison

  Attitude, Voice, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

  Jon Meacham

  Biblical, Support, Slavery

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

  Al-Ghazali

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

  Henry Clarence Thiessen

  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.181, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

  Meg Cabot

  Desire, Molecules, Answers

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Husband, Complexion

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

  Lora Leigh

  May, Sample, You Choose

  Lora Leigh (2016). “Wicked Pleasure:”, p.104, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  Eusebius

  Christian, Men, Law

  "The Proof of the Gospel: Being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cæsarea".

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• Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

  Bertrand Russell

  Negative, Morality, Said

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.99, Psychology Press

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

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• Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Healthy, Enemy, Degrees

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• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  Ashoka

  Giving, Worthy, Believer

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• Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.

  Jared Taylor

  Mean, Race, Identity

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Children, Pain

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Laughing, Christian Inspirational

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• I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.

  Puff Daddy

  Success, Sleep, Machines

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