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Quotes About Forbids

When they are beyond the reach of the law, Americans revert to the patterns of segregation the law forbids. Why is this?
~ Jared Taylor
where the Torah restricts retaliation, Jesus forbids it altogether.
~ Richard B. Hays
This doctrine of necessity in universality means that there is an essence to the universe which forbids relationships beyond itself, as a violation of its rationality. Speculative philosophy seeks that essence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Laila's warning from Wajma: This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
A good rule of thumb is 'Biology enables, Culture forbids.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
~ Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
I don't have a problem with a world full of vampires and zombies but with one where the law forbids me from shooting them.
~ Daniel Marques
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
~ Joichi Ito
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
~ Horace
Every tradition forbids the asking of certain questions about what has really happened to you.
~ John Berger
The law, or the thoroughly realistic formalization of certain conditions for the self-preservation of a community, forbids certain actions directed against the community. However, it does not forbid the disposition that produces these actions, for it needs these action for other ends.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself upon him already in times of peace, namely, that the state forbids him to do wrong not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.
~ Sigmund Freud
while the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust." He
~ Eric Metaxas
Having granted some protections to some animals, we are constantly confronted with the logic of our own laws, troubled by perfectly rational connections between the random or wanton acts of cruelty" the law forbids and the systematic, institutional cruelties it still permits.
~ Matthew Scully
Having granted some protections to some animals, we are constantly confronted with the logic of our own laws, troubled by perfectly rational connections etween the random or wanton acts of cruelty the law forbids and the systematic, institutional cruelties it still permits.
~ Matthew Scully
A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you're being stoned.
~ Ayn Rand
Love forbids you not to love.
~ Umberto Giordano
Only here's the thing: there is no law that forbids a citizen to speak to his president. Apparently, in a democracy it's even recommended.
~ Boubacar Boris Diop
You have often heard me speak of an oracle or sign which comes to me, and is the divinity which Meletus ridicules in the indictment. This sign I have had ever since I was a child. The sign is a voice which comes to me and always forbids me to do something which I am going to do...
~ Socrates
Again, we cannot search the whole world in order to make sure that nothing exists which the law forbids. Nevertheless, both kinds of strict statements, strictly existential and strictly universal, are in principle empirically decidable, each, however, in one way only: they are unilaterally decidable. Whenever it is found that something exists here or there, a strictly existential statement may thereby be verified, or a universal one falsified.
~ Karl Popper
To many Americans, saying the United States will never be socialist is rhetorical: Of course it won't - we have a Constitution that forbids it.
~ Charlie Kirk
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
~ La Rochefoucauld
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.
~ Lemony Snicket