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Forbidden Quotes

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

– Hassan Nasrallah

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

– Ingrid Betancourt

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

– Mark Twain

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

– John Chrysostom

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

– Salman Rushdie

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

– Ovid

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