A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.
Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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