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
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
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these… — Michael Douglas 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
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition]… — Joseph Pennell 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
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
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
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
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
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
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
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the… — Martin Scorsese 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
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our… — Daniel Waterman 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
It is certainly accurate, as it has often been said and as his letters reveal, that Grandpa supplied his tenth college reunion… — Jean Kennedy Smith 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
People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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