Banned Quotes

143 Banned quotes by 127 unique authors

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created. — Joe Strummer
They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help the population control. — Kent Hovind
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need… — Lev Grossman
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators… — Charles Colson
Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint… — Eddie Izzard
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. — Libby Houston
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
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I… — Morarji Desai
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. — Paul Hawken
People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life.… — George Steinbrenner
No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. — Edwin Markham
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned. — Nicole Appleton
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially… — Jim Al-Khalili
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned — Geert Wilders
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But… — Nawal El Saadawi
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… — Mort Walker
I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests… — Stephen Roche
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… — Dennis Etchison
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds… — Jafar Panahi
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned. — Cobi Jones
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… — Ruth First
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us -… — Ray Bradbury
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 would… — David Cronenberg

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