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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You
Symptom
Our
Ruler
Moral
Carrying
Pocket
Civilisation
New
Forbidden
Least
Disease
Just
Disintegration
Should
Your
Illiteracy
Symbol
Basis
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
Gene Simmons
You
Man
Fruit
Once
Out
See
Dirty
Stuff
Forbidden
Households
Sticks
Go
His
Blood
Want
Certain
Who
Mommy
Tongue
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Gerrit Smith
God
Respect
Marriage
Obey
Word
Seen
Reading
Would
Studying
Also
Forbidden
Him
His
Southern
Slave
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Harvey Cox
Back
Remain
Talk
Forbidden
Discourse
Where
Forms
Public
Public Discourse
Sermons
Last
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
Huston Smith
History
Society
Rules
Those
Ours
Rigid
Religions
Propensity
More
Only
Almost
Buddhism
Most
Forbid
Forbidden
Known
Hinduism
Permissive
Western
Up
Than
The Only Thing
Asia
Asian
Notion
Teachers
Now
Ever
Play
Thing
Progeny
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
Jennifer Weiner
Day
Job
Kind
Having
Had
Day Job
Almost
Forbidden
Became
Because
Private
Off
Sneak
Where
Fiction
Again
Fueled
Really
Found
Thing
While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.
Jenny Zhang
Me
School
Other
Peers
Immigrants
Fine
Outside
Contact
Forbidden
Make
Queens
Up
While
Chinese
Growing
Growing Up
Socialized
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
Word
Language
Liberal
Compulsory
Between
Most
Contemporary
Forbidden
Beautiful Word
Difference
Whereas
English
English Language
Socialist
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
Jupiter Hammon
God
You
Would
Mention
Know
Forbidden
Against
Warn
Next
Next Thing
Thing
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
You
Every
Claim
Locking
Could
Simply
Wrong
Know
Forbidden
Prove
Up
Theft
Certainly
My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
Kathryn Prescott
Me
You
Fruit
School
Thought
Free
Parents
Become
Down
Tell
Pretty
Someone
Like
Forbidden
Always
Were
Cramp
Them
Gonna
Really
Things
As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.
Kathy Szeliga
Will
Long
See
Take
Forbidden
Am
Children
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
Ken Calvert
Made
Research
Would
Embryos
Both
Purposes
Attempts
Also
Forbidden
Ban
Cloning
Any
Human
Human Cloning
Reproductive
Them
Bill
Products
Medical
Medical Research
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.
Lawrence Wright
Me
Word
Journalist
Strictly
Carried
Hiding
Out
Kind
Charge
Come
Forbidden
Around
First-Person
Nashville
Were
Covering
Lot
End
Trained
Fright
Reporter
Movement
Use
Electric
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
Government
Freedom
Political
Made
Pain
Live
More
Exchange
Demands
Prosperous
Forbidden
Comfort
Material
Intellectual
Any
Which
Chinese
Forsake
Pact
Agreeing
Expression
Lives
I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
Margo Jefferson
Space
Black
White
Locate
Dared
Writers
Between
Forbidden
Vulnerability
Idols
Literary
Sanctioned
Found
Kennedy
There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.
Margo Jefferson
Art
Entertainment
People
Black
Important
Style
Nothing
Every
Think
Way
Claiming
Kinds
One-Way
Only
Only One Way
Most
Forbidden
Most Important Thing
Because
Important Thing
The Most Important
Forms
Thing
Necessary
What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being healthy. But according to some people, it's about not eating this food because it's forbidden by the Jewish law. My view of the halachah changed a little bit. The laws are there hopefully to be a tool.
Matisyahu
Food
People
Law
Some People
Healthy
Think
Changed
Tool
Bit
Hopefully
Some
Eating
About
Potato
Laws
Idea
Forbidden
Because
Kosher
According
Being
Bigger
Little
Little Bit
Chips
View
Keep
Jewish
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Mike Tyson
Life
You
Enjoy
Too
Like
Forbidden
Just
Fruits
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada al Sadr
Freedom
Holding
Our
Diligent
Rules
Religious
Following
Forbidden
Call
Duties
Being
Holding On
Them
Us
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
Nancy Horan
Love
Together
People
Ran
Hundred
Hundred Years
Frank
Frank Lloyd Wright
Married
Scandal
About
Wright
Colossal
Between
Forbidden
Client
Cheney
Affair
His
Years
Years Ago
Off
Love Affair
Lovers
Loving
Newspaper
Who
Europe
Lived
Two
Two People
Set
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
Naomi Wolf
Success
Work
Me
Creative
Woman
Women
Hate
Power
High
High Level
Madonna
Follow
Allow
Powerful
Forbidden
Women Are
Expected
Script
Preoccupation
Usual
Her
Thing
Level
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson
God
Best
Knowledge
You
Bible
Out
Take
Taken
Over
Come
Schools
Forbidden
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Insulted
Lord
Pray
Square
America
Children
Again
Public
Little
Little Children
Your
Organizations
Away
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.
Richard Stallman
Change
Power
Unjust
Others
Software
System
Divided
Proprietary
Study
Since
Forbidden
Because
Does
Source
Really
User
Users
Helpless
Each
Code
Keeps
Program
The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
Robert Zubrin
Property
Law
Crime
Unless
Guilty
Destroy
Has-Been
Must
Seize
Until
Forbidden
Court
Been
Person
Any
EPA
Found
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
Ryan Holiday
Saying
Unless
Has-Been
Cash
Something
Civilization
Over
Since
Forbidden
Piles
Been
Hand
Western
Western Civilization
Brands
Greeks
Owned
Essentially
Commonly
Themselves
Games
Olympics
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