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Quotes About Ban

The most direct and obvious way authoritarians abridge freedom is to limit or discourage or ban outright certain options—NO CHOCOLATE, for instance. The
~ Tim Wu
Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town.
~ Timothy Egan
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
If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
~ Parker Conrad
I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.
~ Lynn Davies
They lie those that say I lost the moon, those that prophesized my fate of sand, they assert so many things with cold tongues: they wish to ban the flower of the universe.
~ Pablo Neruda
Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a text you couldn't read because my great-grandfather had put a permanent ban on any of his works being translated into English, Russian, or French. He was adamant that these three are languages that break all the bones of any work translated into them.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
~ Adam Draper
We already ban foreign donations to political candidates, and we should strengthen that ban with closer scrutiny of credit card donations.
~ Tom Malinowski
Leaders of organizations with leftist ideologies should not be allowed to enter Panjab University.
~ Kirron Kher
What can you do to ensure your magazines will "survive" a future hi-cap magazine ban? Don't vote for people who will ban them and assist those who oppose them.
~ Unknown
DC is expensive. Quite a few lawmakers choose to essentially live in their offices, though they tried to ban that, but when do politicians listen to rules?
~ David Baldacci
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
In 1076 he decreed that none of the English clergy would be allowed to marry.
~ Peter Ackroyd
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.
~ Ai Weiwei
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada.
~ Unknown
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
~ Unknown
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
~ Unknown
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
~ Rand Paul
Theyre talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place thats used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna cant even smoke in bed.
~ Bill Maher
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
~ Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
But as Kennedy told the nation, a limited test ban was "safer by far for the United States than an unlimited nuclear arms race.
~ Unknown
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
~ Mary Cheney