Banned Quotes

• At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Vision, Peers

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Knowledge

  Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114

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• I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

  Nicole Appleton

  Hate, I Hate, Should

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Views, Church Music

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• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  Libby Houston

  Plato, Land, Radio

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• People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

  George Steinbrenner

  Agreement, People, Doe

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• It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, Worry, World

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Effort, Cloning

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• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

  Book, Progress, Lists

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Censorship, Logical

  "Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.

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  What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Honesty, Integrity, Expression

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• If I could have banned them all...I would have!

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, If I Could, Ifs

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• Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

  Eddie Izzard

  Distance, Winning, Swings

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

  Cobi Jones

  Track, Fields, Corny

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• 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

  Book, Chinese, Taiwan

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• 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

  Travel, Book, Fundamentals

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• Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

  Bill Toomey

  Olympics, Corny, Steroid

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