Quotes About Banned

#1. No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

Kiersten White

#2. The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

Amanda Schull

#3. I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee
especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Jim Al-Khalili

#4. The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

Carolyn Mackler

#5. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.

Benazir Bhutto

#6. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#7. he was also banned even from engaging in conversation with two or more persons. He could not legally go to a child's birthday party any more than he could attend political rallies

Gillian Kendall

#8. If I could have banned them all ... I would have!

Dianne Feinstein

#9. The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

Jon Stewart

#10. He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again.
Even if it killed him.

Jennifer Lowery

#11. Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#12. I have a dream:
One day we will get to the promised land.
Then the president will be me,
The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli ... that's it!
All wackness is now banned.

Pharoahe Monch

#13. You called me at four thirty-four ... I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

Darynda Jones

#14. When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

Mort Walker

#15. In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

Graham Chapman

#16. In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Ruth First

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

Kristin Kreuk

#18. When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

Jane Smiley

#19. 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

#20. What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.

Howard Metzenbaum

#21. Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Leon Kass

#22. Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?

Sophocles

#23. As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Herman Kahn

#24. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#25. I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

Nicole Appleton

#26. Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.

Hans Bellmer

#27. I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

Ivica Dacic

#28. Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

Leila Janah

#29. The Kazakh authorities banned the film and threatened to sue the comedian after its release in 2006. But later Kazakhstan's foreign minister said he is 'grateful' to Borat for 'helping attract tourists' to the country.

Anupama Chopra

#30. Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

Corri Wilson

#31. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Herman Melville

#32. Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

Mike Pence

#33. Is all pink entirely banned?'
'Not if it's like a sassy pink,' I say. 'But if it's a sweet, girl pink, yes. Maybe some shade of sarcastic pink if it isn't too abrasive.

Laura Nowlin

#34. Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

Mitchell Symons

#35. Anyway ... I'm a firm believe that every girl should get one Barbie dream wedding in her lifetime, but if that marriage craps out, I'm also a firm believer that all future weddings must be banned to beaches and back yards.

Chrissy Anderson

#36. Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

Lev Grossman

#37. Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

#38. I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

Kathryn Stockett

#39. With a stranglehold of authority it banned the statement for its reproduction or publication in part or in full. The motive on the part of the Government was obvious. It did not want Gandhi to be exposed to the public. The

Anup SarDesai

#40. 'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Michael Ignatieff

#41. A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ISMENE

Sophocles

#42. I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

Bernie Sanders

#43. The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

Charles Colson

#44. And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

Russell Brand

#45. I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

Joanna Lumley

#46. I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Billy Joel

#47. Gabriel thought maps should be banned. They gave the world an order and reasonableness which it did not possess.
'An Ice-cream War

William Boyd

#48. It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello ... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

Harold Town

#49. They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd

Ken Follett

#50. When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

George Takei

#51. Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.

Evgeny Morozov

#52. You know I've had work banned.

Kathy Acker

#53. If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

Michael Bisping

#54. (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Barbara Kingsolver

#55. I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

Brandon Stanton

#56. In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Natan Sharansky

#57. Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Denis Diderot

#58. The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Cobi Jones

#59. Even some of our cookbooks are banned. (Though it's been centuries, at least, since the Pitches ate fairies.) (You can't even find fairies anymore.) (And it isn't because we ate them all.)

Rainbow Rowell

#60. Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#61. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Walter Winchell

#62. We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.

Killi Krupa Rani

#63. The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#64. Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

Bill Maher

#65. The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.

Marvin Ammori

#66. Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.

Mark Kurlansky

#67. The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

Abhishek Bachchan

#68. They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

Marjane Satrapi

#69. You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

Lawrence Taylor

#70. Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.

Kwasi Kwarteng

#71. When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.

St. Lucia

#72. It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

Jennifer Aniston

#73. L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Jimmy Fallon

#74. A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

Stephen Kinzer

#75. When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

Eric Cantona

#76. No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

Edwin Markham

#77. Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

Dennis Etchison

#78. Parliament banned the wearing of political uniforms in public. That finished them. If they couldn't strut up and down in their black shirts they were nothing. The

Ken Follett

#79. Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.

Jules Verne

#80. What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Myracle

#81. The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford.

Erik Larson

#82. I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

Jami Attenberg

#83. A vote transfers power from the electorate to a politician leaving a voter powerless. A vote deprives a voter to represent himself/herself in parliament and a voter is banned from participating in the proceedings of parliament.

David Ssembajjo

#84. So... they banned me!

Deyth Banger

#85. Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

Robert B. Reich

#86. I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

Marco Rubio

#87. I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.

Ernie Els

#88. I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.

John Caudwell

#89. I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

Edward Norton

#90. Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

Sarah Brady

#91. My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

#92. I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Thom Yorke

#93. In India books are nearly always banned at the request of people who do not read but whose literary sensibilities are easily offended.

Tavleen Singh

#94. I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

Eric Lewis

#95. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

#96. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#97. If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

#98. They have science, but science contains nothing that does not come through the senses. The spiritual world, the nobler side of man's being, has been rejected altogether, banned as it were triumphantly, perhaps even with hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#99. The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#100. I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

Thom Yorke