Prohibited Activities Quotes

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

No time can be more vainely spent, then that which is consumed in unlawfull games, besides the breeding of much contention and quarrelles:…. no private Souldiour or inferiour Officer shall play at Dice and Cards, nor any other unlawfull games, upon paine of two dayes imprisonment for the first time, and for after committing the like, to bee further punished by the judges discretion.

The football and the golf be forbidden and not pursued.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.