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Quotes About Banned

A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever.  As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven.   ISMENE
~ Sophocles
ANTIGONE: A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ... CREON: So am I purposed; never by my will Shall miscreants take precedence of true men, But all good patriots, alive or dead, Shall be by me preferred and honored. ... GUARD: Take it all in all, I deem A man's first duty is to serve himself.
~ Sophocles
Children were regarded in a particular way. In the pagan period unwanted children could be exposed to the elements and left to their fate, but Christians reacted strongly against this practice, and it was eventually banned, except in the case of deformed children.
~ Else Roesdahl
I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
~ Salman Rushdie
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
~ Kanye West
In my world, reserved Italians, heterosexual hairdressers, clouds without silver linings, ignoble savages, hard-hearted whores, advantageous ill-winds, sober Irishmen, and so on, are not permitted to exist.
~ Martin Amis
For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.
~ Stanley Coren
He's been banned,' said Lesley. 'Until he passes the advanced driver's course.' 'Is that because you crashed that ambulance into the river?' asked Abigail.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Triazolam has received significant attention in the media because of an alleged association with serious aggressive behavioral manifestations. Therefore, the manufacturer recommends that the drug be used for no more than 10 days for treatment of insomnia and that physicians carefully evaluate the emergence of any abnormal thinking or behavioral changes in persons treated with triazolam, giving appropriate consideration to all potential causes. Triazolam was banned in Great Britain in 1991.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.
~ Mike D
Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I'd bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.
~ Kyle Lafferty
Jealousy over some big, dumb bear flew out the window as he stared at Ronnie. "You…you were banned from Norway? The country?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
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
Because Congress banned the Klan back in '71, the supremacists now call themselves rifle groups," she explained with disgust. "This one is known as the New Knights of the White Camelia.
~ Beverly Jenkins
To them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place in the universe and were much too proud to long for a power theory that would safely bring them back and reintegrate them into the world. They were satisfied with blind partisanship in anything that respectable society had banned, regardless of theory or content, and they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society's humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
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
Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.
~ Shelly Laurenston
yahaan m***** mana hai !
~ Sheroz things
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
That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.
~ Joshua Ferris
Why should joy be banned forever? Why do they think that thinking is a crime? Why do they put clamps on ideas? The Law's judgments should rest on facts alone, proven, consummated facts.
~ Juan Manuel Marcos
You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.
~ Joe Buck