Outlawed Quotes

#1. "Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

Mike Gunn

#2. Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

Richard Louv

#3. Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.

Fran Lee

#4. The passion for finding the system in experience, replacing surprise with order, is a persistent part of human nature ... Science came to mean the elimination of surprise. It outlawed miracles, because miracles are above all unexpected.

George Gilder

#5. Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

Frank Beddor

#6. But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Liam Neeson

#7. When guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Louis L'Amour

#8. Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

Ryan Hurd

#9. The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Douglas MacArthur

#10. Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

Leonard Read

#11. People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Leslie Groves

#12. If a man had to wear heeks they'd be outlawed across the land. Festive in death: chapter 15

Nora Roberts

#13. When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Tom Robbins

#14. America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

John Olver

#15. Arland hit me with another smile. Vampire smiles should really be outlawed.

Ilona Andrews

#16. Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.

Randolph Bourne

#17. Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Alan Bock

#19. There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

John Cornwell

#20. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

Selma Lagerlof

#21. There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

Gerry Spence

#22. It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

David Sedaris

#23. He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

George Herbert

#24. He had a sudden awareness of what a wonderful organization the Weapon Makers were, with their shops existing In tens of thousands of cities and towns in the far-flung Isher Empire, an independent, outlawed, indestructible, altruistic, opposition to tyranny.

A.E. Van Vogt

#25. Derek was in good shape, not just for a man his age but for any man. So maybe he wouldn't be able to get away with wearing skinny jeans, but that didn't matter. Those were for emo kids, hipsters, and twinks and should be outlawed for over thirties anyway

Lisa Henry

#26. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

Harriet Evans

#27. I don't hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.

Carrie Fisher

#28. He frowned. "Naked baby photos should be outlawed."
She closed the photo album. "So tell me, do you still have those cute dimples on your ass?

Kait Ballenger

#29. Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

Suzanne Finnamore

#30. I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed.

Ned Kelly

#31. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Phil Zimmermann

#32. Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.
"Yes ... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

Kim Harrison

#33. What happened between my legs was best ignored. I'm certain something in the employment contract outlawed any and all wetness on my part, especially if it pertained to one James Dylan Ferries.

Kylie Scott

#34. The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

Virginia Postrel

#35. If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

#36. The spitter wasn't hard to hit when you knew a pitcher could throw it legally. But the guys to worry about were the pitchers who sneaked over the illegal spitter after the pitch was outlawed.

Luke Appling

#37. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

John Perry Barlow

#38. If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

Emma Goldman

#39. If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

Alan Moore

#40. I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

Peter Thiel

#41. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

Murray Rothbard

#42. They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.

Timothy Leary

#43. Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society ... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel
an intense awareness of human loneliness.

Frank O'Connor

#44. In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Phillip E. Johnson

#45. Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations - not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Elie Wiesel

#46. I'll take your bet," he said grimly. "I'm going to win it. And in three months, I'm going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.

Lisa Kleypas

#47. There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Albert Camus

#48. If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Jello Biafra

#49. I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Dr. Dre

#50. Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

Thomas Pynchon

#51. As the science of economics ... exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig Von Mises

#52. Texas is a state that had once outlawed sodomy and fellatio, but is totally cool with men giving themselves golden showers in the name of deer hunting.

Jenny Lawson

#53. Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.

David Sedaris

#54. When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Edward Abbey

#55. Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.

Adam Hochschild

#56. Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Alfred Noyes

#57. Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

P. J. O'Rourke

#58. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

Ray Bradbury

#59. In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.

Stieg Larsson

#60. That sleepy, sensual smile of hers ought to be outlawed. It said
everything, without saying anything.

Eloisa James

#61. If it were up to me, it'd be outlawed. I mean, come on. Zach Braff was born streamlined, and that's how it should stay!

Zach Braff

#62. If men had to wear heels, they'd be outlawed across the land.

J.D. Robb

#63. Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

Desmond Morris

#64. Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Nora Roberts

#65. The gospel of grace has been outlawed and frowned upon by most organized religious institutions. But there is a generation of believers rising up upon the face of the earth whose eyes are opening to the truth of the gospel of grace...

Paul Silway

#66. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Edward Coke

#67. But I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

Ned Kelly

#68. Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Steven Pinker

#69. "Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?

Mike Gunn

#70. Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

Richard Louv

#71. Please don't encourage or espouse e-piracy...the sharing, swapping, or trading of e-books is outlawed by the DMCA unless authorized by the copyright holder.

Fran Lee

#72. The passion for finding the system in experience, replacing surprise with order, is a persistent part of human nature ... Science came to mean the elimination of surprise. It outlawed miracles, because miracles are above all unexpected.

George Gilder

#73. Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

Frank Beddor

#74. But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Liam Neeson

#75. When guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Louis L'Amour

#76. Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

Ryan Hurd

#77. The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Douglas MacArthur

#78. Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

Leonard Read

#79. People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Leslie Groves

#80. If a man had to wear heeks they'd be outlawed across the land. Festive in death: chapter 15

Nora Roberts

#81. When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Tom Robbins

#82. America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

John Olver

#83. Arland hit me with another smile. Vampire smiles should really be outlawed.

Ilona Andrews

#84. Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.

Randolph Bourne

#85. Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Vladimir Nabokov

#86. Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Alan Bock

#87. There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

John Cornwell

#88. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

Selma Lagerlof

#89. There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

Gerry Spence

#90. It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

David Sedaris

#91. He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

George Herbert

#92. He had a sudden awareness of what a wonderful organization the Weapon Makers were, with their shops existing In tens of thousands of cities and towns in the far-flung Isher Empire, an independent, outlawed, indestructible, altruistic, opposition to tyranny.

A.E. Van Vogt

#93. Derek was in good shape, not just for a man his age but for any man. So maybe he wouldn't be able to get away with wearing skinny jeans, but that didn't matter. Those were for emo kids, hipsters, and twinks and should be outlawed for over thirties anyway

Lisa Henry

#94. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

Harriet Evans

#95. I don't hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.

Carrie Fisher

#96. He frowned. "Naked baby photos should be outlawed."
She closed the photo album. "So tell me, do you still have those cute dimples on your ass?

Kait Ballenger

#97. Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

Suzanne Finnamore

#98. I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed.

Ned Kelly

#99. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Phil Zimmermann

#100. Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.
"Yes ... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

Kim Harrison