As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them. — Benjamin Hawkins Copy Share Image
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The first casualty of war is truth, and the war on drugs is no different” — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious… — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man. — Frances M. Young Copy Share Image
