Banned Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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