Banned Quotes
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
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
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
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
Jon Johansen
I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned.
Francois Bozize
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner
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
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
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
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
Kristin Kreuk
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.
Alberto Tomba
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
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
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
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot
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
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.
Cobi Jones