Banned Quotations

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

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

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

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

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

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

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

We have not banned it (soda) because we have not seen any hard data. If people are calling this a public health crisis then we should require that only 18-year-olds can buy soda." ()

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

She was banned from many libraries, ... in the back door.

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

If this bill banned gay-straight alliances outright, it would be unconstitutional. But because it doesn't explicitly state that, it would be harder to make a constitutional case against.

If it wasn't for R-CALF, folks, we would have been taking not just cattle but beef from a country that had BSE. We would have been taking food that every other modern consuming country had banned and we wouldn't even be labeling it.

If you are caught, you should be banned from the game. The policy needs to be strict. It?s unfortunate for guys like Bonds who tarnish the game.

If the FDA approves this drug, it is certain that it will have to be banned within a short time after marketing begins because of the high probability of further occurrence of the serious injuries it has already been found to cause.

He's going to flip over to the Veterans Committee next year, ... It's just too bad things couldn't have happened early when he was banned from the game, coming clean. It would be a whole different story.

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

Paris has said she is mad about poker and that she always wins in Vegas. We're offering her the chance to get lucky and she doesn't even need to leave her house. We're aware that her parents have banned her from gambling at their casino. This online challenge solves all her problems...she can cover her losses without stepping foot in there.

My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.

I was very intrigued and amused by the notion of somebody who can get banned for ten years, for playing bowls in a fashion that annoys people.

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

I think I've banned couches from the set.

That?s undue influence, something that should just be banned right across the board.

Time is not infinite and the European Commission has banned further state aid.

The question is, 'what do we do?' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be censored because it is a creative expression, etc. But if it is having that kind of negative impact on our young people, that is something that we are fighting against, the violence and the aggression, then we have to do something about it. And my view is that these things should be censored, banned from the airwaves and the electronic media. I have no qualms about it.

We offered all supporters, via our website, the opportunity to submit their views against four options and overwhelmingly they wanted smoking to be banned in the outdoor sections of the stadium.

We will hold a hearing in Vienna once the Olympics are over. It doesn't matter what the IOC findings are, if we find they've done the wrong thing, they'll be banned officially.

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

But our view was eventually banned from the report.

But once we banned chickens from the house, we chose wood.

While this is regrettable, it is important to remember that hundreds of NHL players have been tested over the years as part of their participation in the Nagano, Salt Lake City and the upcoming Turin Olympics, in addition to many other international hockey competitions, and this is the first positive test for a banned substance.

What parent has the right to select for anyone else's child, ... Teaching Banned Books.

Twenty-five years ago, there were no companies that offered same-sex domestic partner benefits. Today, there are more than 8,000. Twenty-five years ago, there were no states with laws that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Today, there are 16 that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Twenty-five years ago, the Human Rights Campaign endorsed only one candidate for Congress. Last year, we endorsed 201. We were proud to have to opportunity to celebrate those and so many other benchmarks with some of our strongest allies in the fight for equality.

What Dick Pound said about a significant percentage, something approaching 30 per cent of our players, taking banned substances is completely without any foundation and remains extraordinarily irresponsible given that he should be aware of the fact that there have been hundreds of tests done on NHL players over the last few years (for international competitions) with no positive results other than this one.

Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?

There's got to be more punishment on the people directly involved. Maybe if coaches were not only punished but banned if they were found guilty of something. Maybe we need to self-police ourselves better -- I don't think there's many coaches turning each other in.

Things would have turned out better if the Nazi Party had been decisively banned in the 1920s and did not have the chance to bring a racist and anti-Semitic ideology to power successfully.

The speech becomes ineffective if it's banned from taking place during the event. Hence, it takes away their free speech.

Sometimes I wonder if we're having a dramatic impact on the productivity of the American people, ... I've heard anecdotally that we've been banned in some workplaces.

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

Compared with the ninth national games, we will have 20 percent more tests this time. The athletes who are tested positive will be disqualified from the games and they will be banned for two years after their B samples are confirmed positive,

Denmark has in effect banned partially hydrogenated oil; Canada is considering it. The United States ought to do the same.

Anyone buying an on-sold ticket faces the prospect of being banned from admission. If it is determined they are not the original purchaser, we have a legal right to ban them.

A winning example would be in Florida, ... They banned netting, which has brought back the spanish mackerel. That also brought back king mackerels, because king mackerels feed on spanish mackerels.

Banned Books Week is nothing more than a promotion of intolerance towards any librarian, teacher, or parent who questions the wisdom of giving adult material to children, Schools and libraries should be family oriented toward parents and safe places for children.

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

This machine is a joke. It sets us back a long way. We've done a lot to hinder the negative effects of alcohol. It's just not a smart thing and should be banned nationwide.

There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot; that's one of the reasons France banned it.

As was widely reported, an amendment was attached to the Senate version of an appropriations bill which would have categorically banned our transaction, ... It is our understanding that that language has been removed, but the final budget has not been approved.

It's a performance-based business, and it's hard for a player to all of a sudden think that something he's buying over the counter could be banned and affect his ability to play and get the job done, ... It's up to the individual player to either say, 'You know what? I'm not doing it,' or 'I'm going to take a chance. If they test me, I won't be one of the guys that it shows up on.'

It's on the banned list -- no question he screwed up.

It's the Grinch who stole Christmas, ... In a petty move, the Bush administration has banned minor activities such as Christmas tree harvesting and mushroom picking to express their opposition to a judge's ruling. The action is particularly ill-timed considering the short harvest season for mushrooms and Christmas trees. Precedent clearly shows that these kind of activities are not subject to administrative appeals. The Forest Service should rescind this punitive order and allow people who rely on these activities for their livelihood to pay the bills and put food on the table.

It's appalling that the tobacco industry is not held responsible for the deadly products it continues to market and sell to young people. Clearly, the industry is trying to get young people hooked on smoking and nothing is being done to limit this targeted marketing. Cigarettes, even in assorted candy flavors, cause lung cancer and lung disease and should be banned for the sake of our children.

It's sort of banned from our home, ... But when he's not around, we play it in the car.

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

The use of banned substances in Italy is a crime.

In an eight-day span, the Ugandan government has seriously damaged its human rights reputation by riding roughshod over the rights of political opponents and the courts. The government has arrested the main presidential opponent, used commandos to intimidate the judiciary and banned all public protests, radio discussions and even posters on the subject.

If I thought they were really concerned about everyone's health, they would have banned it across the board.

I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town.

He began training again three weeks after the Tour de France ended. It is clear he is hungry for cycling. ... He could feel a need to prove to the world he is the strongest and that it isn't due to any banned substance.

For now, they were banned from the V-League, which starts in January. They could be banned for life if convicted in a court.

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

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

The maddening aspect is you get all the responsibility and none of the authority. It's very clear what you are supposed to do, which is to pay for the whole thing. But you are banned from using the word 'Olympic' and the Olympic rings.

The football authorities ought to ban anybody who can be proved to have taken money illegally. And they should be banned from being involved in football for the rest of their lives.

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

An athlete who uses banned substances comes under this principle and therefore I would not support measures to render our legislation -- which is one of the most just and severe in the world -- weaker for people who use (banned) substances.

An athlete could conceivably get a negative test from something they ingest without any benefit from a banned substance even though it can be found in small amounts in a product. But if it goes through our rigorous process, we can say the product contains what the label says it does - and nothing else.

And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

You know I've had work banned.

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

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