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Erik Pevernagie
“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don鈥檛 fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Alberto Manguel
“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.”
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

George Orwell
“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities. It paid, she said; it was camouflage. If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.”
George Orwell, 1984

Salman Rushdie
“The fact is that in any open society people constantly say things that other people don鈥檛 like. It鈥檚 completely normal that should happen. And in any confident, free society you just shrug it off and you proceed. There is no way of creating a free society where nobody says anything that others don鈥檛 like. If offendness is the point at which you have to limit your thoughts then nothing can be said. There might be people who might be offended by various kinds of literature. I myself, I am not very fond of, let me not mention Chetan Bhagat, I wasn't going to say that, so I have not. And yet, I believe such writer have a right to publish, and of course to live. The point is behind these ideas of offendness and respect there is always the threat of violence. Always the threat is if you do that which disrespect or offends me I will be violent to you and so the real subject is not religion, its violence.”
Salman Rushdie

Katherine Rundell
“No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.”
Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

Tapan Ghosh
“Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.”
Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out

Jenny Nordberg
“Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman 鈥� it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.”
Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

Louis Paul Boon
“Wat is er aanlokkender, geheimzinniger, duivelser dan een verboden boek?”
Louis Paul Boon

Salman Rushdie
“eduvstThe fact is that in any open society people constantly say things that other people don鈥檛 like. It鈥檚 completely normal that should happen. And in any confident, free society you just shrug it off and you proceed. There is no way of creating a free society where nobody says anything that others don鈥檛 like. If offendness is the point at which you have to limit your thoughts then nothing can be said. There might be people who might be offended by various kinds of literature. I myself, I am not very fond of, let me not mention Chetan Bhagat, I wasn't going to say that, so I have not. And yet, I believe such writer have a right to publish, and of course to live. The point is behind these ideas of offendness and respect there is always the threat of violence. Always the threat is if you do that which disrespect or offends me I will be violent to you and so the real subject is not religion, its violence.”
Salman Rushdie

Steven Magee
“Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.”
Steven Magee

Deyth Banger
“So... they banned me!”
Deyth Banger
tags: banned, me, so

Nitya Prakash
“Terrorists banned in Pakistan and Dowry banned in India...”
Nitya Prakash

Olawale Daniel
“If the most powerful man in the world can be banned on social media, one thing that is certain is that the least powerful person in the world cannot be banned from buying Bitcoin. It is for everyone!”
Olawale Daniel