The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear. — Ron Paul 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
Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and… — Umar Copy Share Image
I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Give yourself one night to waste with me. Come, break every prohibition. We will be corrupt, and if it's a crime. What… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard… — Albert Gallatin Copy Share Image
There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“The United States had one year to prepare for Prohibition from its ratification on January 16, 1919, and in those 12 months,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a… — Franklin P. Adams 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It's not that hair cannot be seen. It's an identity,… — Jagmeet Singh 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
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
“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
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
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
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