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What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals -- only of his rights. – Judith Crist	added by Normando 5 years ago
Protest is guaranteed, but it is forbidden to infringe on the freedom of others. We will be very decisive with whoever closes a road or a bridge. – Omar Zain al-Abideen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I've seen people protest because they didn't get plastic bags after they shop, but if we are suddenly forbidden from using plastic, as Indonesians, we'd be shocked. – Thomas Wibowo	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Did Natalie jump? Did she slip? Was she unconscious before going overboard? Or was she pushed? And if so — by whom? And why? it’s a hell of a story. Forbidden affairs. Twisted lies. And murder. – Dylan Howard	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Our local policeman went round all the flats and warned us that during matches it was forbidden for us to go out onto our balconies, open our windows or use binoculars. Apparently (police) snipers will be working in the area. – Elena Mormol	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People were forbidden from giving or receiving religious items at a military hospital where our brave service members were being treated, and when they wanted those religious items, these were great, great people. These are great soldiers. They wanted those items. They were precluded from getting them. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The people of Israel underwent a horrible Holocaust 70 years ago, millions of Jews were murdered … and the world saw and remained silent; we as Jews who felt this silence in our own flesh cried out for years, we asked how the world knew and remained silent? … As Jews it is forbidden for us to remain silent … Genocide cannot be ignored, not in Syria and not anywhere, and not against any people, even if they are not our friends. – Yitzhak Yosef	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden. – Bruce Wells	Found on CNN 7 years ago
For our generation, it wasn't so much about it being forbidden in Islam but more about our parents saying it's 'haram, haram, haram', (Young people) are more concerned about their parents' perception than following the proper rules of Islam. – Bashar Alaeddin	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If voting would change anything, it would be forbidden for a long time! – Fabrice	added by anonymous 7 years ago
In communication between people, which is of course essential to our living together, we have to show our faces, so the full veil should be forbidden wherever legally possible. – German Chancellor Angela Merkel	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I wrote a chapter in my very first book 20 years ago called ‘My Forbidden Love for Hillary,’ there's nothing to come around on. I was for Hillary before Hillary was for Hillary. – Michael Moore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I still think there is an opportunity to come to a good solution, and by the way nobody in Germany is forbidden from getting involved with Kuka. – German Chancellor Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Why can't they give even general explanations. They are forbidden from saying the Shin Bet and Mossad ? , i am not the committee's rubber stamp. – Zehava Gal-On	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Entrepreneurs need to understand that they cannot discuss the specifics of their crowdfunding campaign through social media. Most don’t understand this distinction. While all other forms of crowdfunding piggyback on social media -- this one does not, they are specifically forbidden from hyping or promoting any detail of the offering aside from communication to investor on the intermediary platform. – Richard Swart	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The deliberate starvation of people is unequivocally forbidden as a weapon of warfare. By extension, so are sieges, which deprive civilians of essential goods such as food. And yet over 450,000 people are currently trapped in besieged towns and villages in Syria -- and have been, in some cases, for years, food, medicine and other desperately-needed humanitarian aid is repeatedly obstructed. Thousands of people may have starved to death. – Zeid Ra'Ad Al Hussein	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Drinking is forbidden -- and clubs -- that's all. we've been through a lot of disastrous times. But I think it's our responsibility to hope. – Kimia Fasihian	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bands which exist in Iran have no possibility to be in public, but these young people do not give up. You can find their music everywhere, but like drugs, it is forbidden. – Fateme Gosheh	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is forbidden to evict Jews from their homes and there will be consequences, we demand the prime minister's involvement in the matter. – Ayoub Kara	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is hardly any book that is more overladen with such a multitude of myths, that awakens such disgust and anxiety, that ignites curiosity and stirs speculation, while simultaneously exuding an aura of the mysterious and forbidden. – The Institute	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are so many places where it's difficult -- or even forbidden to swim, sometimes it was very difficult just to find a place to go into the water. – Aude Boissaye	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If it was not for this project, I would never have seen this forbidden zone with my own eyes, (Koriyama) is close, but I did not know how this place was devastated until now. – Kanoko Sato	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is forbidden for a magistrate to express by any means of communication his opinion on a process before it is judged. – Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I've seen a few comments where (people are) against it, but there's nothing that says there is anything against it. In our religion, anything that's not stated as forbidden is permissible, as long as I'm dressed correctly, according to Islam, then there's no problem. – Mariah Idrissi	Found on CNN 8 years ago

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals -- only of his rights.

– Judith Crist

added by Normando
5 years ago

Protest is guaranteed, but it is forbidden to infringe on the freedom of others. We will be very decisive with whoever closes a road or a bridge.

– Omar Zain al-Abideen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I've seen people protest because they didn't get plastic bags after they shop, but if we are suddenly forbidden from using plastic, as Indonesians, we'd be shocked.

– Thomas Wibowo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Did Natalie jump? Did she slip? Was she unconscious before going overboard? Or was she pushed? And if so — by whom? And why? it’s a hell of a story. Forbidden affairs. Twisted lies. And murder.

– Dylan Howard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our local policeman went round all the flats and warned us that during matches it was forbidden for us to go out onto our balconies, open our windows or use binoculars. Apparently (police) snipers will be working in the area.

– Elena Mormol

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People were forbidden from giving or receiving religious items at a military hospital where our brave service members were being treated, and when they wanted those religious items, these were great, great people. These are great soldiers. They wanted those items. They were precluded from getting them.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The people of Israel underwent a horrible Holocaust 70 years ago, millions of Jews were murdered … and the world saw and remained silent; we as Jews who felt this silence in our own flesh cried out for years, we asked how the world knew and remained silent? … As Jews it is forbidden for us to remain silent … Genocide cannot be ignored, not in Syria and not anywhere, and not against any people, even if they are not our friends.

– Yitzhak Yosef

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

– Bruce Wells

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For our generation, it wasn't so much about it being forbidden in Islam but more about our parents saying it's 'haram, haram, haram', (Young people) are more concerned about their parents' perception than following the proper rules of Islam.

– Bashar Alaeddin

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If voting would change anything, it would be forbidden for a long time!

– Fabrice

added by anonymous
7 years ago

In communication between people, which is of course essential to our living together, we have to show our faces, so the full veil should be forbidden wherever legally possible.

– German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I wrote a chapter in my very first book 20 years ago called ‘My Forbidden Love for Hillary,’ there's nothing to come around on. I was for Hillary before Hillary was for Hillary.

– Michael Moore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I still think there is an opportunity to come to a good solution, and by the way nobody in Germany is forbidden from getting involved with Kuka.

– German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Why can't they give even general explanations. They are forbidden from saying the Shin Bet and Mossad ? , i am not the committee's rubber stamp.

– Zehava Gal-On

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Entrepreneurs need to understand that they cannot discuss the specifics of their crowdfunding campaign through social media. Most don’t understand this distinction. While all other forms of crowdfunding piggyback on social media -- this one does not, they are specifically forbidden from hyping or promoting any detail of the offering aside from communication to investor on the intermediary platform.

– Richard Swart

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The deliberate starvation of people is unequivocally forbidden as a weapon of warfare. By extension, so are sieges, which deprive civilians of essential goods such as food. And yet over 450,000 people are currently trapped in besieged towns and villages in Syria -- and have been, in some cases, for years, food, medicine and other desperately-needed humanitarian aid is repeatedly obstructed. Thousands of people may have starved to death.

– Zeid Ra'Ad Al Hussein

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Drinking is forbidden -- and clubs -- that's all. we've been through a lot of disastrous times. But I think it's our responsibility to hope.

– Kimia Fasihian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The bands which exist in Iran have no possibility to be in public, but these young people do not give up. You can find their music everywhere, but like drugs, it is forbidden.

– Fateme Gosheh

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is forbidden to evict Jews from their homes and there will be consequences, we demand the prime minister's involvement in the matter.

– Ayoub Kara

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is hardly any book that is more overladen with such a multitude of myths, that awakens such disgust and anxiety, that ignites curiosity and stirs speculation, while simultaneously exuding an aura of the mysterious and forbidden.

– The Institute

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are so many places where it's difficult -- or even forbidden to swim, sometimes it was very difficult just to find a place to go into the water.

– Aude Boissaye

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If it was not for this project, I would never have seen this forbidden zone with my own eyes, (Koriyama) is close, but I did not know how this place was devastated until now.

– Kanoko Sato

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is forbidden for a magistrate to express by any means of communication his opinion on a process before it is judged.

– Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I've seen a few comments where (people are) against it, but there's nothing that says there is anything against it. In our religion, anything that's not stated as forbidden is permissible, as long as I'm dressed correctly, according to Islam, then there's no problem.

– Mariah Idrissi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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