Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible…Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I… — Rhys Ifans 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
Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“It was the beginning of that dark time of blood, and crime, and terror which the years of prohibition brought and which… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The 2013 deal, whereby the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons verified the destruction of 95% of Syria's declared chemical weapons,… — Crispin Blunt 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 real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should… — David Satcher Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler 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
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
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
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime… — Danny Sugerman Copy Share Image
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image