Top 136 Banning Quotes & Sayings

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

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

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there's no way I can make 55.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

We're not looking at banning all weapons.

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?

I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response.

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

Banning pre-poll surveys is certainly no answer in today's world. Sensitising the public and the media as to the good, bad, and desirable aspects of survey research is more sensible than that.

I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump.

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

Mr. Trump knows that banning travel to the United States from a half dozen Muslim-majority countries would do nothing to enhance our security - and everything to undermine it.

When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!

I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.

You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality.

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's complete discrimination.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

With so many public places banning pets people can't socialise their animals, which makes them more hostile and leads to unsocial behaviour.

Nations have succeeded before in banning classes of weapons - chemical, biological and cluster munitions; landmines; blinding lasers.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

We need to ban this whole culture of shutting down and banning things.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.