Banned Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Herman Kahn

  Would Be, Nuclear, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to deviled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.

  Katy Perry

  Religious, Eggs, House

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Organization, People

  Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (1986*). “Mandela speaks: statements from Nelson Mandela to the people of South Africa”

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

  Abhishek Bachchan

  House, Magazines, Firsts

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

  Joe Strummer

  Buying, Should, Products

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• In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

  Andrew Weil

  Turkeys, Russia, Europe

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• On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board.

  Hilary McKay

  Mother, Art, Jobs

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• I have a dream:
  One day we will get to the promised land.
  Then the president will be me,
  The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it!
  All wackness is now banned.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Dream, Rap, Government

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

  Auguste Piccard

  Drinking, Dirty, Science

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• Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Magnus

  Long, Waiting, South Carolina

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• Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Book, Honor, Badges

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• I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger which is now banned from the classroom. I agree with those of us who feel that the wimpish chemistry training that schools are now forced to adopt is one possible reason that chemistry is no longer attracting as many talented and adventurous youngsters as it once did. If the decline in hands-on science education is not redressed, I doubt that we shall survive the 21st century.

  Harry Kroto

  Adventure, School, Smell

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• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Long Ago, Should Have, Dying

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

  Ma Jian

  Book, Beijing, Left

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Doors

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.630, Northwestern University Press

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• Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.

  Ally Carter

  Government, Bird, Trying

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• You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Thinking, Twelve

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.17, Macmillan

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

  Thom Yorke

  Dirty, Janitor, Jokes

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• I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

  Eva Longoria

  Glasses, Water, House

  "More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley`s group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley`s dad, Sir Oswald Mosley, ended up spending three years in World War II, 1940 to 1943, interned in the U.K. as basically an enemy of the state. He spent that time in prison, as did Max Mosley`s mother.

  Rachel Maddow

  Mother, Dad, War

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• For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Religious, Lying

  Stanley Coren (2008). “The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many of you probably don't remember what happened after the South Sea Bubble, which caused an enormous financial contraction, and a lot of pain. They banned publicly traded stock in England for decades.

  Charlie Munger

  Pain, Sea, Interesting

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• James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.

  Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

  Song, Thinking, Different

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

  Thom Yorke

  Sea, Rays, World

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