Forbidden Quotes - Page 4

• The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

  Ken Calvert

  Purpose, Cloning, Research

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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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• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Artist, Self

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage

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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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• Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive, People, Guilt

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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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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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Lonely, Loneliness

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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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• it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

  Sharon Olds

  Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, Warsan Shire (2017). “Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Sibling, Crazy, Blood

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Paris

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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 head ache 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

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

  John Calvin

  Wine, Laughing, Drink

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• It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morality, States

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• Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

  Terry Brooks

  Children, Sight, Blood

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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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• One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to
  the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked
  verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives
  his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having
  been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp
  the long and the short swords and to die

  Kato Kiyomasa

  Loyalty, Military, Reading

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