(40 quotes found)
“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
Mark Twain
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
Voltaire
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
“When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden”
Latin Proverb
“Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed”
“The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden”
Karl Kraus
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are a lot of Navy and Coast Guard reservists ready to join. Right now, they are forbidden to come in. It's crazy not to take advantage of them.”
Clifford Jordan
“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful”
Benjamin Franklin
