“The War on Drugs will go down in history as the most racist crusade since slavery.” — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
“The first casualty of war is truth, and the war on drugs is no different” — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly… — Israel Shenker 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
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
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
“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
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
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday 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
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau 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
I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making… — Wesley Snipes 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
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez 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
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
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