What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.