Banned Quotes

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.

You know I've had work banned.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

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

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

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

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.

It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

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.

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

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

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

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.

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.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u so I banned it immediately.

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.

Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read in high schools. Like it's just a wild.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

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

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

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

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

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.