Forbidden Actions Quotes

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

The word of Sin is Restriction

Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him." He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.

There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.

When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.