Banning Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Banning Quotes from famous authors such as Coretta Scott King, Valerie Jarrett, Dawn Foster, Morrissey, Marcus Samuelsson. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.
Coretta Scott King
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I’ve had people say to me, ‘Well, I enjoy going to the firing range and using the assault weapons.’ But the pleasure derived from that compared to the horrendous damage that it can do, we believe that the damage warrants banning assault weapons.
Valerie Jarrett
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We can find any number of ways to criminalise begging, but when we do so, aren’t we attacking the problem from entirely the wrong angle? Banning begging or rough sleeping treats street homelessness as a lifestyle choice that can be discouraged through threats of legal action and heavy-handed policing.
Dawn Foster
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Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
Morrissey
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Here’s a thought: what if we ban the word ‘healthy food’ from our culinary vocabulary? I’m not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I’m talking about changing the way we think about food overall.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Between 1961 and 1982, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.
Richard Grenell
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We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
Renato Dulbecco
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For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the ’30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
Lisa Morton
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Credit to all the clubs, if there are incidents anywhere I think the clubs are very quickly on that and are banning supporters who are making racial comments. I think clubs are very much on top of what they see.
Chris Hughton
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The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression – book banning in its many modern forms – is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood’s political altar, the Democratic Party.
Andrew Breitbart
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As governor of New Mexico, I would have – I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I’ve always favored parental notification. I’ve always favored counseling. I’ve always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.
Gary Johnson
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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.
Bill Maher
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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.
Antony Blinken
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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.
Ron Johnson
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Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.
Kevin de Leon
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I actually don’t think we should ban Jihadi videos because I don’t think that is what causes the issue of Islamist violence. We have to confront these things beyond banning them.
Claire Fox
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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.
Hugh Laurie
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We need to ban this whole culture of shutting down and banning things.
Pooja Bedi
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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.
Caitlin Moran
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As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.
Ram Gopal Varma
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With so many public places banning pets people can’t socialise their animals, which makes them more hostile and leads to unsocial behaviour.
Amala Akkineni
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It should be noted that the EPA’s banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
Robert Zubrin
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I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.
Boris Johnson
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I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again – and it has been reported over and over again – that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.
Ken Buck
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People who are talking about banning IPL, they should think about many other things that are troubling the country. People who want to look after IPL will do.
Gautam Gambhir
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If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere – to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won’t ever come back to books.
Matt Haig
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I didn’t know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Mary Cheney
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The flag is a symbol of our freedom, and burning it absolutely is one of the least patriotic things that a person could possibly do. I say ‘one of the least’ because I can think of a few things that would actually be less so – and, as a matter of fact, I think that banning flag-burning would absolutely be on that list.
Kat Timpf
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
Richard Dawkins
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We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
Robert Mugabe
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Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars from being modified by small businesses to optimize their performance, including through the use of methanol.
Robert Zubrin
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We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.
Rashida Tlaib
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I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he’s the one who’s lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn’t stem from personal opinion, I don’t know what does.
Jessi Klein
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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.
N. Bhaskara Rao
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We should transition away from carbon-based fuels, but that is not something that you can just flip a switch metaphorically, no pun intended, and start immediately like banning fracking. It’s a transition.
John Fetterman
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Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
Dianne Feinstein
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When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks.
Robert Dallek
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupid. Banning books shows you don’t trust your kids to think and you don’t trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
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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.
Jorge Masvidal