Top 335 Banned Quotes & Sayings

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

You know I've had work banned.

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.

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.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

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.

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.

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

To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

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

In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.

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

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

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

Fortunately, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister, she banned public whipping of women - banned whipping of women, period, which is a marvelous thing she did.

Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.

If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.

The people that are proposing banning assault weapons, well, first of all they're already banned. Assault weapon is a fully automatic, those are already banned.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

And of course, Indonesian people are above all scared of being 'different'. Being different here is punished brutally. Different people get mocked, ostracized, raped, tortured, and murdered. They are banned. To be a Communist is banned. To be gay is banned. To be an atheist is banned. To be a Taoist is banned. Being one of a thousand things is banned.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

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.

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

A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but frustrating and upsetting. I hear from readers that my work encouraged them to ask for help or reach out to someone about the situation they're in. When you hear stories like that on a daily basis and then hear adults call for your work to be banned, it's proof of why the stigma around these issues is so dangerous.

I want the fascist Qur'an banned.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

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

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

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

I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.

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

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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

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

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

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

I've been banned from cutting my own fringe.

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

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.

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

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

I have 265,000 followers on Twitter - before I was banned.

I've been banned from just about everything.

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

My life has become extremely hard. I am banned on Twitter. I'm banned on Uber. I'm banned on Lyft. I'm banned on Venmo. I'm banned on GoFundMe. I'm banned on PayPal. I'm banned on Uber Eats. I can't even order a sandwich.

I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.

I've played a few times in stadiums where the fans have been banned, and it's just not the same.

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

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.