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
We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit. — Hillary Clinton 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
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
“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
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
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
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in… — P. Chidambaram 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
I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923,… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept… — Anonymous 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
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The support many Progressives lent to Prohibition reflected that naiveté, and though the Progressive Movement began to dissipate during World War I,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition. — Ring Lardner, Jr Copy Share Image
