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

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
John Chrysostom

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Harvey Cox

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tryon Edwards

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
Usher Raymond

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Boris Pasternak

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

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

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
John Conyers

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
Jupiter Hammon

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Robert Dale Owen

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

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais

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

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan

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