Banned Quotes

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos

Music, Rock, Father

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot

Long, Dying, Scandal

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

Good, Die, Young

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West

God, Book, Practice

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet

Political, Ignorant, Guns

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

Music, Bad, Church

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
Rachel Weisz

Why, Acting, Expression

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

Honesty, Same, She

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty, Truth, Courage

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
Wayne Rooney

Person, Others, Seem

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
Ai Weiwei

Song, Story, Style

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

Human, Universal, Countries

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.
Thabo Mbeki

Time, Point, View

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
Bill Toomey

After, Until, Olympics

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky

Fear, Dissent, Societies

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

Time, Keep, Finally

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. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
George Steinbrenner

Life, Keep, Word

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
Lawrence Taylor

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

Together, Here, System

You know I've had work banned.
Kathy Acker

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Sports, Football, Basketball

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian

Before, Books, Left

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
Jung Chang

Travel, Society, Deep

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Jung Chang

Love, Book, Read

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

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
Lauren Myracle

Cool, Books, Decided

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

Cool, Writing, Down

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

Fail, Community, Open

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

Black, Thought, Soldier

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

Experience, Parents, Play

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