35 Quotes About Banning

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.

What is forbidden is most desirable.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.

Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air – ban it all you want, it's still there.

believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legislation banning human cloning.

an irresponsible use of the public airwaves, as well as a call for the Bush administration to violate the executive order banning assassination.

There's a lot of tension with the immigration issue going on, but this transcends that issue. You don't handle it by banning the American flag.