#bid

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#charm #desirable #forbidden #makes #unspeakably

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

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. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#antiwar #because #community #convicted #forbidden

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input. ↗

— Joe Biden

#conclude #i #input #judgment #opportunity

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ease #expect #forbid #freedom #go

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#even #fight #fighting #forbid #must

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#been #every #evil #go #good

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#box #burning #cap #connected #day

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. ↗

— Karel Capek

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