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.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

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.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Anyone who hasnt experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

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

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

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

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

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

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

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

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.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

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.

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.

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.

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

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

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?

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

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.

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.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

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

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.