Bans Quotes

• I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Asking

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• ... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Safety, Giving

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• I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Goal, Focus

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Religion

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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• I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

  Hugh Downs

  Gun, Wind, People

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• Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

  Jerry Weller

  Mother, Abortion, Birth

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• The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Technology, Simple, Nuclear

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• My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

  Alex Kozinski

  Smart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Government, Law

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• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  Barack Obama

  Marriage, Gay, Defense

  "Barack Obama in His Own Words". Book edited by Lisa Rogak, 2007.

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• Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Gone, Half

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Russia

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• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

  David Suzuki

  People, Bags, Incentives

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Gay, Yesterday

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• But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Decision, Beef

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

  John Boehner

  House, Support, Leader

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• Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, America, Fundamentals

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• I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Advertising, Has Beens, If I Could

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• I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Home, Air

  "Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the campaign trail". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  Steve Israel

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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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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