I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of…

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison…

— Otto Hahn

“He had seen the same mixture of exhaustion and fight in Russell’s face. It was the poison of war spreading its sickness.”

— Jennifer Leeper

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other…

— Charles Albert Gobat

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German…

— Paul Blobel

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three…

— John Harvey Kellogg

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and…

— Thomas Szasz

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking.   Second-order consequences of Prohibition:…

— Sebastian Marshall

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

— Italo Calvino

“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…

— Gary Taubes

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

— Bill Hicks

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

— Pierre Trudeau

“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.”

— Donald O'Donovan

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

— Sam Branson