Top 100 Banned Quotes

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of ‘experiments’ banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.
Robert Winston
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
Kristin Kreuk
In North Korean culture, love is a shameful thing and nobody talked about it in public. The regime was not interested in human desires and love stories were banned.
Park Yeon-mi
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash – Adobe’s popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser – was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.
Evgeny Morozov
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The people that are proposing banning assault weapons, well, first of all they’re already banned. Assault weapon is a fully automatic, those are already banned.
Ron Johnson
I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone’s Christmas.
Jami Attenberg
It’s troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.
Marcia Fudge
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
People tell me ridiculous things and then say they’re joking. Like, at the Dubai immigration, the officer told me that I’ve been banned from Dubai. I almost started crying which is when he said that he was joking!
Chunky Pandey
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is

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
Have you ever read the back of the Newman’s Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
Nell Newman
You know I’ve had work banned.
Kathy Acker
That was the coolest thing about ‘Baby Got Back.’ The establishment didn’t embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
I’ve been banned from cutting my own fringe.
Suki Waterhouse
Being an author of banned books is cool, I’ve decided.
Lauren Myracle
Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.
Brett Kavanaugh
I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere – everywhere!
Krzysztof Penderecki
When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.
Jimmy Bullard
Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.
Laura Loomer
Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.
Thelma Schoonmaker
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors’ prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid – an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.
Tina Brown
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
I want the fascist Qur’an banned.
Geert Wilders
I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what’s around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.
Allan McNish
As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.
Robert Zubrin
It’s egregious that CPAC and Matt Schlapp have decided to bow to the leftist outrage mob and ban one of President Trump’s most prominent supporters. I am extremely offended and appalled that I’ve been banned by my own people.
Laura Loomer
‘Le Petit Soldat’ was banned in Paris; it wasn’t out in the movie houses. It was forbidden because it was talking about the Algerian war.
Anna Karina
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago – it’s a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Jim Sensenbrenner
The bouncer shouldn’t be banned. Hitting batsmen, I’m afraid, is part of the game. But it’s the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It’s become accepted, and actually it’s not acceptable at all.
Jonathan Agnew
I have 265,000 followers on Twitter – before I was banned.
Laura Loomer
I’ve been banned from just about everything.
Ann Coulter
I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.
John Caudwell
Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.
Vikramaditya Motwane
I’d always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned.
Katherine Dunn
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
Lawrence Taylor
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
Marsha Blackburn
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
Many other countries have already banned human cloning,

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass
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.
David Mamet
Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I’m a big fan.
Sam Simon
There are so many people, FIFA or whatever, that can do something against this. They should wake up and do it. If there is a racism, those people should be banned from the stadium forever. They should not even enter the stadium anymore. Never again. That’s the first thing they can do.
Kevin-Prince Boateng
‘The Prince’s blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the ‘Evil Machiavel.’ The outrage has not dimmed with time.
Michael Ignatieff
In 2002, a year after 9-11, as a Congressman, I was banned from the White House by Karl Rove because I told the ‘Washington Times’ that if there is another terrorist attack on our homeland and we have done nothing more than Bush has done to date, ‘Bush will have blood on his hands.’
Tom Tancredo
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought ‘to preserve the idea of American homogeneity’ and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an ‘Asiatic Barred Zone.’
Karan Mahajan