Forbidden Quotations

'Indigenous' is a bit of a gory thriller film that's centered around five best friends who take a vacation to Panama. They are enticed into the forbidden jungle by a local Panamanian and are being hunted by an indigenous creature - the legendary Chupacabra.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being healthy. But according to some people, it's about not eating this food because it's forbidden by the Jewish law. My view of the halachah changed a little bit. The laws are there hopefully to be a tool.

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.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

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

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

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

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

We have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we've stuck our finger in your eye, ... The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

Silence and secrecy has been the most frustrating component of this case. It just seems inhumane that information about this child can be forbidden on the theory that it's somehow protecting her privacy, when you consider that this child almost died under the state's care.

Mr Zimmer is small-minded, ... Berlin is open - Mr Zimmer has to learn that ... And so long as nothing forbidden is happening, I expect tolerance.

People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.

He has only forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and that over which any other (name) than (that of) Allah has been invoked; but whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring, nor exceeding the limit, no sin shall be upon him; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Rebel and government commanders alike must order their forces to protect all civilians, regardless of ethnicity. Attacking civilians and targeting ethnic groups are forbidden under the laws of war.

I think he's just going to regret it, ... You know, in the modern age the list of forbidden books and the Inquisition ended a long time ago.

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

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

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.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Writers and believers live their lives haunted by the same question: What happens to our days once they disappear? The objective fact is that each day that passes is lost forever, as forbidden to us as the dead. But prayer and fiction offer a different answer. Those lost days still live among us, written in each person's hand, turned into stories.

TV had always been the forbidden bad fruit in academia,

especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.

There's no question it is a flamboyant scene, but that is also Berlin, ... And as long as there is nothing forbidden happening, I expect tolerance.

The ride is about the yeti, and our story is about our interaction with that yeti. When we get on this train and we go up into the forbidden mountain domain of the yeti, he destroys the track ,and the thrill part of our ride is escaping the wrath of the yeti as we return to civilization.

Rural schools are forbidden to collect any other fee aside from the three permitted categories.

Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground.

Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the b

Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens,

It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.

It is quite astounding. One week revenue-based companies are forbidden (psychologically) from investors' minds and one week later, as interest rate (fears) return, technology (stock) is the place to be because they are less affected.

It sounded great! People could eat all the forbidden foods and lose weight,

It's a new injury that came last night. I'm not fit enough to play a tennis match. It's a pity I can't play but I hope I can play in Guangzhou. Maybe now I can see the Forbidden City.

It's a new injury that came last night, ... I'm not fit enough to play a tennis match. It's a pity I can't play but I hope I can play in Guangzhou. Maybe now I can see the Forbidden City.

Oh wearisome condition of humanity! / Born under one law, to another bound: / Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity; / Created sick, commanded to be sound.

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are exported have little effect on the overall market. Japan is forbidden to export weapons and Taiwan has yet to sell an air-to-air missile to a foreign customer.

It's not a case of refusal to abide by the condition. It's that the nursing home is forbidden from abiding by the condition by the law.

The inspectors have been forbidden from being as aggressive as they need to be. They can't go ahead and close the mine and use the authority that they have to do the job that they've been charged to do.

The fear is that this sends the message that if you buck the system and stick it out long enough, you can join the club. There are a lot of nervous people when it comes to this agreement because it crosses what had been a forbidden line.

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

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

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

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

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

You can't ride on the sidewalk, in fields. It's forbidden in our city. It's just too dangerous to talk about riding them in a city.

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached action, the nature of detached action, and also the nature of forbidden action.

A Muslim friend of mine who has just read the book points out to me that Islam retains a similar duality over paradise. In paradise the righteous are rewarded with precisely what is forbidden on earth.

The lawyer can reveal anything he is not forbidden to reveal. There are rules governing what a lawyer can say publicly about a litigation proceeding and those are meant to balance the interest in public discussion and the interest in an untainted trial.

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

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

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

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.