#forbid

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. ↗

— George H. Mead

#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#destroy #doubting #faith #forbid #house

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

#citizen #constantly #could #difference #doing

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. ↗

— Ovid

#denied #ever #forbidden #striving #us

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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