#forbid

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

#bread #bridges #equality #forbids #law

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

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Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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The law often allows what honor forbids. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#forbids #honor #law #often

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. ↗

— Alain Robert

#doing #forbidden #nice #sometimes

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

— Usher

#forbidden #play #sleeping #work

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

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

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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

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