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Quotes About Prohibitions

Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones. Lo espontáneo y natural del sistema se reduce a medida que la sociedad progresa y se crean estructuras legales que regulan el mercado.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It is incumbent on leadership to reevaluate areas where women have been relegated to serve that are not based on biblical prohibitions but rather on cultural practices that may be extensions of sexism and misogyny.
~ Eric Mason
The E.U. has to be a community, thanks to which we are more secure, stronger, and we can achieve more. It shouldn't be a structure which is associated by its citizens with prohibitions, orders and complicated regulations.
~ Andrzej Duda
Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Erickson is careful to elicit signs of limitations, rigidities, narrow "sets." Then, using the patients' own beliefs, he will set about getting them to break the prohibitions.
~ Sidney Rosen
Numerous books have confirmed Ariès's and Gawande's point that we are death-deprived not only by medical and mortuary businesses but also by much more generalized social prohibitions against acknowledging dying or mourning.
~ Susan Gubar
Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.
~ Ezra Pound
The rabbit was not domesticated until early medieval times (it was bred by French monks in the belief that newborn bunnies were fish and therefore exempt from the prohibitions against eating meat on certain days in the Church calendar);
~ Carl Sagan
So draconian were the prohibitions that in 1525 the court ordered coastal officials to destroy all private seagoing vessels.
~ Charles C. Mann
One reason that religious prohibitions will probably never disappear is that we would deeply miss the glory we bestow upon ourselves for daring to violate the rules of an illustrious illusion we have imagined was an explanation of our existence.
~ George Hammond
As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the "uncleanliness" of believers eating at the same table as musicians.
~ Ted Gioia
It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
~ James Baldwin
It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being– and let us not ask whether or not this is possible, I think we must believe that it is possible– must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity, or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of him.
~ James Baldwin
It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that it is possible) must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church.
~ James Baldwin
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
~ Octavio Paz
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
~ Lao Tzu
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
~ Frank Gaffney
The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.
~ William Carlos Williams
You will need to be explicit about which requests are demands, requirements, or prohibitions, versus which requests are supplications, invitations, or authorizations.
~ Unknown
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
~ Hugo L. Black
It is my belief that there are"absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
~ Unknown
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
~ Italo Calvino