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Quotes About Forbidden

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
i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
~ Michelle Tea
Every amendment in the Bill of Rights expressly tells the government what IT is forbidden to do, not one of them explains what the people can't do
~ Mike Huckabee
This is the nameless land, they say. To you, who for reasons unknowable glimpse here these words. Good people, do not mistake the terms of the agreement: Do not ask men for the story of the nameless land. Do not move lips and tongue in an imitation of the tongue of the nameless land. Do not treat as men those who are imprisoned in the nameless land.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
We were two fucking animals eyeing each other up. It shouldn't be sexy. But it was. Because it was dangerous and wrong and that was just the way I liked my sex. This was my favorite flavor. O'Keefe, M.. Burn Down the Night (Kindle Locations 1443-1445). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
~ Molly O'Keefe
The women say that they perceive their bodies in their entirety. They say that they do not favour any of its parts on the grounds that it was formerly a forbidden object. They say that they do not want to become prisoners of their own ideology. They say that they did not garner and develop the symbols that were necessary to them at an earlier period to demonstrate their strength.
~ Monique Wittig
At about the same time that St. Augustine lived, the Roman jurists ruled, under the Code of Mathematicians and Evil-Doers, that "to learn the art of geometry and to take part in public exercises, an art as damnable as mathematics, are forbidden.
~ Morris Kline
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Adam was too lazy and cautious. But Eve who came after him dared to go and get the forbidden fruit.
~ Unknown
expelled from the garden.
~ Unknown
He does not here ask the different groups to give up their practices; merely not to judge one another where differences exist. As Paul well knew (though we sometimes forget), this is actually just as large a step, if not larger, than a change in practice itself. The move from regarding something as mandatory to regarding it as optional is vast, just as vast in fact as the move from regarding something as forbidden to regarding it as available.
~ Unknown
Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings.
~ Unknown
Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.
~ Nalini Singh
She wished he'd stop touching her. Not because she didn't like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
~ Nalini Singh
I'll be gentle." Solemn words that made him want to smile. "I know you're a virgin. Psy don't have sex do they?" "No." Intimate touch was forbidden in the PsyNet. "But I think I have the concept figured out.
~ Nalini Singh
Never before Raphael had blue meant the color of sin, of seduction. Of pain.
~ Nalini Singh
His lips…his lips should've been illegal.
~ Nalini Singh
Her body didn't seem to have received the memo that she wasn't interested in sex with a T-Rex. Probably because she kept fantasizing about all kinds of things that could lead to nakedness with said T-Rex.
~ Nalini Singh
Taking and eating what was prohibited by God led to judgment for Adam and Eve, but taking and eating of God's provision of Christ leads to salvation for all who will feast on the fruit of the cross of Christ.
~ Unknown
We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late......
~ Naoko Takeuchi
Look, do you know what I need right now?" "What?" I put my hand at that place at the back of his neck where his hair is short, soft bristles and pulled him toward me. And because it was easy, I guess, or familiar or just because it put an end to the awkwardness, he kissed me back. He smelled exactly like I remembered, maybe even better. And we fell to doing other easy, familiar, forbidden things.
~ Naomi Alderman
You can ask me for anything you like, except time
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Badreya whispered in her ear, "The price of freedom is high, Bodour, and there is no writing without freedom. Break your chains, Bodour, break free of your prison and reach out for the forbidden tree. If you eat from it, you will not die, for knowledge leads you to life and not to death. You will live forever.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Black as night, sweet as sin.
~ Neil Gaiman