For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level,” and by the time of… — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“As they entered, Lemuel Sixpack was in the middle of his trademark long- winded oration. His last name was really Sixpack and,… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Thunder Road” became a codename for particular routes everyone knew through the main thoroughfares. Numerous drivers ended up risking their lives for… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There was also a deliberate exploitation of prejudiced mentalities among their listeners by revivalist preachers such as Billy Sunday. Above all, there… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd… — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and… — Lorne Rubenstein Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws -… — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Before Prohibition the United States had more than 10,000 distilleries; as of 2012 there were just about 250 at the craft scale.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
![“Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].” quote by Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b9/baruch-spinoza-1338_appetite_laws-which-can-be-broken-without-any-wro_1425059.jpg)
