Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all…

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.”

— Tapan Ghosh

It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and…

— David Cronenberg

As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you…

— Matt de la Pena

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

— Cobi Jones

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

— Thom Yorke

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,…

— Walter Dean Myers

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

— Joe Strummer

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so…

— Ivica Dacic

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

— Nicole Appleton

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…

— Sarah Brady

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal…

— Ali Sina

Former social media user who got sick of it all when I was banned at Digg in 2007. Now Im back.

— Anonymous