Banned Quotes Page 2

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control.

And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me.

And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.

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.

I can't say that only the citizens litter.

I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking.

I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab.

This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

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.

If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

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.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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 here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump.

Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

The ones here know I own this place and they give it space.

After all, unlike the Dark-Hunters, I’m not banned from hitting or killing them, and they know it. (Sin) You’re just such a sweetie pie. I can’t imagine why the other Dark-Hunters won’t let you play their reindeer games. Shame on them all. (Kat)

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals.

.. we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.