Ban Quotes - page 9

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home. (Mike Huckabee)
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. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Britain has joined its brethren in the 'civilised West' to legitimise civil partnerships, which to us simply means same-sex marriages. They are also putting a ban on preaching because it offends Muslim minorities. Britain has, of course, made Sunday a working day. View quote
Peter Akinola
Importantly, there is nothing in the Constitution - by which, under Article 6, Section 2, officials at every level of government are obligated to abide - that authorizes the banning of any substance or enforcing that ban with the threat of injury, incarceration, or death. The lawful powers of the federal government are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8, and they do not include forbidding drugs or any other substance. Politicians early in the 20th century understood this, and passed a Constitutional amendment allowing them to outlaw alcohol. No such amendment has ever been passed, or even proposed, with regard to drugs. View quote
L. Neil Smith
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing. View quote
Gao Xingjian
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience. View quote
Kristin Kreuk
The Chandrika government had lifted the embargo on certain goods banned by the previous regime. View quote
Chandrika Kumaratunga
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. View quote
Taslima Nasrin
That's right, we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politically correct term that won't help us protect our people! View quote
Donald Trump
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. View quote
Jung Chang
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)
Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Jace was probably the safest boyfriend in the world since he was pretty much banned from (1) getting angry, (2) making sexual advances, and (3) doing anything that would produce an adrenaline rush. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. View quote
Carly Fiorina
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink. View quote
Jim Al-Khalili
I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas. View quote
Theresa May
As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed. View quote
Herman Kahn
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. View quote
David Mamet
It is intolerable that a whole race should be indicted and banned- each individual, good, bad and indifferent, lumped into one category-as the Jews are in Germany. It is intolerable that we should accept the principle that there is a permanent, irreconcilable and even necessary hostility between workers and the men who employ them-as is positively implied in this country, in the National Labor Relations Act. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. View quote
Elton John
I had always found Colonel Qaddafi hilarious. I wanted to do a character that was inspired by him. And you had all these other ludicrous characters, like Turkmenbashi, who was the President and dictator of Turkmenistan, who renamed, I think, the day Thursday and the word for "bread” after his mother. And when his doctor told him to give up smoking, he banned smoking from the whole country, because he didn't want to be reminded of cigarettes. And then you have someone like Kim Jong-il, you know, who claimed to have hit nine holes-in-one in his first-ever game of golf, and also Colonel Qaddafi, who had these sort of thirty virgin guards, dressed unintentionally like a sixty-year-old women, and who would break wind when being interviewed by the BBC, as you know. (Sacha Baron Cohen)
... the Catholic Church didn't get their information from the Bible (it was a banned Book). View quote
Ray Comfort
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself. View quote
Sam Kinison
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We feel it necessary to put a ban on meat exports, beef in particular and cow smuggling in immediate future. View quote
Mohan Bhagwat