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Quotes About Ban

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
~ Oliver Tambo
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won't: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful.
~ Jaime Harrison
The fact is that no clear international ban against crimes against humanity existed prior to 1945, due in large part to U.S. opposition.
~ Christopher Simpson
In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
~ Catharine Arnold
The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the 'lifetime ban' was left largely unchanged.
~ Mike Quigley
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.
~ Mike Pence
It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes, and the government should ban these things.
~ Asha Bhosle
I think it is very unfortunate that there is a ban on adoptions in Russia.
~ Oksana Masters
It's unfortunate that Facebook, as soon as I come and speak out, they ban me from their platforms.
~ Christopher Wylie
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.
~ Keith Gessen
I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying to ban fossil fuels in this country.
~ Dagen McDowell
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
~ Stephen Malkmus
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
~ Nick Hornby
There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].…You'll go back to a position like they had where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it."—interview on MSNBC, March 30, 2016
~ James Patterson
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
~ Judy Biggert
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
~ Martha Smith
I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
~ Arnold Palmer
I've stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
~ Arnold Palmer
We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.
~ Asa Hutchinson
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
~ Cory Doctorow
China has banned the eating of wild animals, and there is hope that the use of wild animal parts for medicine will also come to an end.
~ Jane Goodall
Good thing," Lula said. "If California found out a guy got killed with an iron, they'd ban them, and all those movie stars would be wrinkled all the time.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike a 'fracking ban,' the Fossil Energy Research bill would actually help us combat climate change.
~ Conor Lamb
Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
~ Bill Toomey