| "...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet." »Hermann Hesse |
| "Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take." »Peter McWilliams |
| "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." »Oscar Wilde |
| "It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." »Voltaire |
| "It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour." »Asoka |
| "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." »H.L. Mencken |
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