Forbidden Behavior Quotes

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

Forbid a fool a thing, and that he'll do.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.