Banned Quotes - Page 5

• I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

  Richard Leakey

  Believe, Views, Important

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• Palestinians have been banned since forever. And nobody - and it's an unhuman act, and it's a - for me, it's a crime issue. So, nobody has punished Israel ever since they were banning Palestinians. And so, Israel right now feels the power that they can just move on with it, and now they are trying to ban other people that are not Palestinians.

  Tamer Nafar

  Moving, Israel, Issues

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The public takes little notice of those who want to abolish abortion. They are dismissed as extremists. If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles.... My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit... saving some lives is better than saving no lives at all. I hope pro-lifers will come to share my view that some progress is better than no progress.

  Nadine Dorries

  Views, Way Forward, Circles

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• My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to deviled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.

  Katy Perry

  Religious, Eggs, House

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• I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

  Thom Yorke

  Dirty, Janitor, Jokes

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• I have a dream:
  One day we will get to the promised land.
  Then the president will be me,
  The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it!
  All wackness is now banned.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Dream, Rap, Government

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• The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

  Andrew Weil

  Turkeys, Russia, Europe

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• Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

  Joe Strummer

  Buying, Should, Products

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• When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Beautiful, Cutting

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• While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Plato, War

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

  Herman Kahn

  Would Be, Nuclear, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.

  Elaine Pagels

  Book, Egypt, Years

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House

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• Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

  Paul Hawken

  Mother, Law, Safety

  Paul Hawken (2013). “The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Art, Night

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• In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  House, Magazines, Firsts

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• I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

  Jami Attenberg

  Children, Believe, Holiday

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• Nobody with a criminal record would ever be allowed to buy a gun. All assault weapons would be banned, completely. And everybody who still possesses a gun license would receive mandatory education and training by professionals on how to handle a gun. After all, I can't drive my car until I pass a test proving I know how to handle a car.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Car

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

  Michael Bisping

  Drug, Mind, Should

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• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Beijing, Left

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Book, Honor, Badges

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• Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Magnus

  Long, Waiting, South Carolina

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• I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

  Marco Rubio

  Love, Country, Freedom

  "Rubio calls Venezuela ban 'a badge of honor'" by John Roberts and The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 28, 2015.

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• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  Sam Simon

  Boxing, Fans, Should

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