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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and… — Milton Friedman 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
We need to be acting responsible as adults, and I don't endorse in any way the irresponsible use of marijuana. But I… — Cory Booker 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
The 2013 deal, whereby the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons verified the destruction of 95% of Syria's declared chemical weapons,… — Crispin Blunt 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
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover 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
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
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
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
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
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
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Spirit has determined that he will operate through certain means and at certain times and if we sinfully put obstacles or… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of… — Otto Hahn Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith… — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into… — Pierre Trudeau 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/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/baruch-spinoza-1338_appetite_laws-which-can-be-broken-without-any-wro_1425059.jpg)
