Bans Quotes

• I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Asking

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• ... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Safety, Giving

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• I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Goal, Focus

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Religion

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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• I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

  Hugh Downs

  Gun, Wind, People

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• Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

  Jerry Weller

  Mother, Abortion, Birth

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• The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Technology, Simple, Nuclear

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• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Hunting, Law, House

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• It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

  Steve Marmel

  Gun, Yesterday, Rights

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• If it were up to me we'd ban them all.

  Mel Reynolds

  Gun, Gun Control, Ifs

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• It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

  John Longenecker

  Gun, United States, Gun Control

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• What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Doe, Should

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• When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Scary, Happened

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Gun, Law, Class

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• I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

  Judy Blume

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.

  Don Kates

  Gun, Law, People

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• 80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

  John Fugelsang

  Gun, Assault Weapons, President

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2013

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• Palestinians have been banned since forever. And nobody - and it's an unhuman act, and it's a - for me, it's a crime issue. So, nobody has punished Israel ever since they were banning Palestinians. And so, Israel right now feels the power that they can just move on with it, and now they are trying to ban other people that are not Palestinians.

  Tamer Nafar

  Moving, Israel, Issues

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  Ann Winterton

  Meaningful, Jobs, Hunting

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Gay, Practice

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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