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

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

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

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

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

I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned.
Francois Bozize

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. 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

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

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

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Libby Houston

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

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 or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson