Forbidden Quotes - Page 15

• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Heart, Roots

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Western

  7 Copy quote

• 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,

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Los Angeles, Charm

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

  Michel Foucault

  Clothes, Intellectual, Facts

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.207, Cornell University Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Compulsory

  19 Copy quote

• 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”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.

  Richard Taverner

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  People, Tiny, Planets

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Mind, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.383, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

  Marcel Proust

  Home, Dark, Doors

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In the shadow of young girls in flower”, ePenguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Answers

  14 Copy quote

• I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Mean, Laughing, The End Of The Day

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Father, Fire

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Zoos, Thinking, Echoes

  Michel Houellebecq (2006). “The Possibility of an Island”, p.148, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Sail, Everlasting

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source