Forbidden Quotes - Page 13

• Una religión es un sistema unificado de creencias y prácticas relativas a cosas sagradas, es decir, cosas apartadas y prohibidas, creencias y prácticas que unen en una sola comunidad moral llamada Iglesia a todos los que se adhieren a ellas.

  Emile Durkheim

  Practice, Community, Religion

  Emile Durkheim, Steven Lukes (2014). “The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Knowledge, Curiosity

  Angela Carter (1997). "Burning your boats: the collected short stories", Penguin Group USA.

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• Debería prohibirse y castigarse severamente la extirpación del cáncer mediante cortes, quemaduras, cauterización y otras torturas diabólicas. Es de la naturaleza de donde proviene la enfermedad, y de la naturaleza proviene la cura, no de los médicos.

  Paracelso

  Cancer, Cutting, Burning

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• Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Lying, Inspiration

  "La gran dama de las letras que no se calla". Entrevista con Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. 23 de noviembre de 2003.

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• If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

  Muhammad

  Spiritual, Men, Camels

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• It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

  Tertuliano

  Evil, Violence

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• By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens

  Strom Thurmond

  Agreement, Government, Long

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• Es un derecho, sí un deber, buscar con cautela los números, tamaños y pesos, las normas de todo lo que [Dios] ha creado. Pues Él mismo ha permitido que el hombre participe en el conocimiento de estas cosas... Pues estos secretos no son del tipo cuya investigación deba prohibirse, sino que se ponen ante nuestros ojos como un espejo para que al examinarlos observemos en cierta medida la bondad y la sabiduría del Creador.

  Johannes Kepler

  Knowledge, Eye, Science

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• The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Uprising, People, Elements

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• What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.

  Judith Crist

  Brother, Creating, Rights

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• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

  Tertuliano

  Men, Blood, Abortion

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Apples, Sake

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• En ningún pasaje de los santos libros canónicos se encuentra precepto divino o permiso alguno para quitarnos la vida, ya sea para entrar en el goce de la inmortalidad, o para rehuir o librarnos de cualquier cosa. Es más, la ley, correctamente interpretada, prohíbe incluso el suicidio, cuando dice: "No matarás". Esto se prueba especialmente por la omisión de las palabras "tu prójimo", que se insertan cuando se prohíbe el falso testimonio.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicidio, Libro, Suicida

  Saint Augustine de Hipona (2016). "Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]", p.9337, Aeterna Press.

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• Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mistress, Instinct, Humans

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp..." She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?" That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope." Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Hunters, Colorado

  Rick Riordan (2007). "La maldición del Titán"

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• It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

  Jon Krakauer

  Climbing, Glimpse, Stealing

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 23, 2014

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• The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

  Brennan Manning

  Church, Complaining, Stories

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.22, Multnomah

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• A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

  Roald Dahl

  Giants, Ears, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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• Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

  Edith Hamilton

  Heart, Fire, Covered Up

  Edith Hamilton (1969). "Mitología: Historias intemporales de dioses y héroes".

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• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Pigs, Self

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Doubt, Modern

  "G.K. Chesterton: Philosopher Without Portfolio". Book by Quentin Lauer (p. 32), 1988.

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

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Intoxication, Unimportant

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

  Paulo Coelho

  Rivers, Mirrors, Hands

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• La única manera de librarse de una tentación es ceder a ella. Resístete a ella, y tu alma enfermará de anhelo por las cosas que se ha prohibido a sí misma, de deseo por lo que sus monstruosas leyes han hecho monstruoso e ilegal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ceder, Ley, Enfermo

  Oscar Wilde Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). "Las obras completas de Oscar Wilde: El retrato de Dorian Gray : los textos de 1890 y 1891", p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mouths, Kind, Worried

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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