#forbid

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#central #disarmament #equality #first #first step

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#bad habits #cannot #correcting #done #forbidding

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#cause #course #doom #everyone #forbid

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

#bread #bridges #equality #face #forbids

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

#bread #bridges #equality #forbids #law

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. ↗

— Jean Genet

#air #breathe #criminals #forbidden #hopelessly

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #authorized #certain #certain kinds #could

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. ↗

— Alain Robert

#doing #forbidden #nice #sometimes

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#broke #came #columbus #dimension #discovered