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In the books there are some loose dicta that an Act of Parliament and the common law should respectively stand as originals according to the circumstances of the case; but this is not law, unless it be confined to prohibitions for excess of jurisdiction and to restrain waste. Heath, J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 129.
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

hugo black

— James Madison Lecture at the New York University School of Law (February 17, 1960).

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

cicero

— De Legibus (On the Laws), Book I, Chapter XV (translation by C.D. Yonge)

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From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

frantz fanon

— p. 37 (The Wretched of The Earth (1963))

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It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

ovadia yosef

— Quoted in Jewish Chronicle, 11 Oct 2013 page 22

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Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go. Try to hedge it around with prohibitions, and it would go and we could not stop it; and no more would come.

john james cowperthwaite

— March 29, 1967, page 253.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society , and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason , which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.


— De Legibus (On the Laws), Book I, Chapter XV (translation by C.D. Yonge)

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The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, marital status, political beliefs, disability, or age, and the government effectively enforced these prohibitions.


— U.S. State Department Report, 2010.[3]

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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people a very few people, but a few novelists are among them are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

e. m. forster

— Chapter Nine: Conclusion

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