Robert Jordan quote: “If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed”

“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Source: Clariel

“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

L'art n'est pas chaste [...], on devrait l’interdire aux ignorants innocents, ne jamais mettre en contact avec lui ceux qui y sont insuffisamment préparés. Oui, l'art est dangereux. Ou s'il est chaste, ce n'est pas de l'art.
Quote by Antonina Vallentin (1963 [1957]), Picasso, p. 168.
1960s

“What's going on? … What you are doing is not allowed in Islamic law [halal]. What you are doing is forbidden in Islam [haraam]! … Do you know right from wrong?”

Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist

Remarks to captors minutes before death, quoted in msnbc.com (2011 October 21) "Even stashed in a meat locker, Gadhafi divides Libya" http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44986347/ns/today-today_news/t/battle-over-body-delays-gadhafis-burial/

“Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.”

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) writer and economist

The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)

“Millions marched in countries that participated in the war in Iraq, in Britain, Spain, and Italy. Their governments went to war, but the peoples protested against this in the millions. Am I allowed to kill theses people?!…We want [the attackers] to understand the religion and to know what is forbidden. They have a flaw in their understanding of Jihad. They believe that Jihad means fighting the entire world. Who has said such a thing?”

Yusuf Qaradawi (1926) Egyptian imam

Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Are We Allowed to Kill the Mayor of London Just Because He is British?! http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/615.htm March 2005.
Jihad

“Narrated 'Aisha: I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.)”

Aisha (605–678) Muhammad's wife

Sahih Bukhari 8:73:151 Sahih Bukhari http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/073-sbt.php#008.073.151

“No country allows such slogans anywhere in the world. Show me a country and give me some reasons to allow such things. This is never allowed and should not be allowed.”

Prakash Javadekar (1951) Indian politician

On the allegations that some JNU students shouted anti-national slogans, as quoted in " Slogans at JNU 'trigger' to violence: Javadekar http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/slogans-at-jnu-trigger-to-violence-javadekar-116021701175_1.html", Business Standard (17 February 2016)

“The atelier was under the roof. Inhabiting this space was forbidden due to fire code restrictions, but staying and working there was allowed. We therefore had to avoid the impression that these were our living quarters. The most necessary furniture had to disappear into the attic during the day. And so the place was decorated purely with curtains. A curtain hung in front of the entrance door, a second one in front of the oven heating.... an adjoining room was hidden by a curtain with abstractedly patterned batik.”

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) German artist

In addition to defying societal standards, die Brücke artists defied housing laws: the ateliers in Dresden that they worked and lived in were forbidden to be used as homes
Source: Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, ed.; Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2005, p. 312 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272168564 translation, Claire Louise Albiez]

“But surely we are not allowed…"
"Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.”

L.A. Meyer (1942–2014) American writer

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed”

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