Quotes About Banning

If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~Ray Bradbury

Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.

With so many public places banning pets people can't socialise their animals, which makes them more hostile and leads to unsocial behaviour.

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

Credit to all the clubs, if there are incidents anywhere I think the clubs are very quickly on that and are banning supporters who are making racial comments. I think clubs are very much on top of what they see.

I'm supporting plans in Congress to fully ban bump stock devices and prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines.

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

In 1738, the Pope issued an encyclical banning all participation in Masonry under threat of excommunication.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

Banning pre-poll surveys is certainly no answer in today's world. Sensitising the public and the media as to the good, bad, and desirable aspects of survey research is more sensible than that.

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

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Nations have succeeded before in banning classes of weapons - chemical, biological and cluster munitions; landmines; blinding lasers.

I definitely think there should be stronger gun safety laws, including prohibiting the sale of assault weapons, probably banning the sale of certain magazines that allow you to fire a large amount of bullets.

As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.