Quotes about prohibited actions

Empress Dowager Cixi

You must find ways to make absolutely sure that such abuse of the Chinese is strictly prohibited and discontinued.

She had read reports that Chinese faced in several lands of the West. The worst of these were Peru and Cuba where Chinese emigrant labor were kidnapped and worked in slave conditions. Prior to Cixi, Chinese Emperors had little or no concern for the laborers and peasants in their own country much less those Chinese who had gone abroad in search of a better life.

Benjamin Franklin

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Woody Allen

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

Tertullian

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

Vera J. Zasulich

All collective action, such as declarations, or even petitions, are prohibited in Russia; the Government, by an official fiction is supposed to know all the needs of its subjects

Gza

I was always taught my do's and don'ts:
For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Horace

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri

Moslems are prohibited from helping the enemy. They must not support the Satan and permit enemies to establish bases in an Islamic country [Iraq] since at the end of the day they [the US] will attack the Moslems from there

Marjane Satrapi

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

Channing Tatum

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Yousef Saanei

It is self-evident in Islam that it is prohibited to have nuclear bombs. It is eternal law, because the basic function of these weapons is to kill innocent people. This cannot be reversed … You cannot deliberately kill innocent people.

This quotation demonstrates that even in the Islamic Fundamentalist Theocracy, not all the religious leaders are extremists and anti-human rights. However, Saanei is no longer in the top level of the Iranian government and more extreme fundamentalists have control of the government. But Iran is by no means monolithic.

prohibited actions Quotes