Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud 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
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
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
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
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
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can… — Scott Pruitt 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
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
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 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
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
“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
Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition. — Ring Lardner, Jr Copy Share Image
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were… — Rodney S. Quinn 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
Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:… — Nancy Mairs 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
I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the… — Andrew Solomon 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
