“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
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its… — Libba Bray 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
“alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level,” and by the time of… — Daniel Okrent 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
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
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
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
“In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious… — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state:… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown… — Rose George 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
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
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest… — William Lyon Mackenzie King 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
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our… — Kurt Schmoke 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 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 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 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
“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
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
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover 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
Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and… — Lorne Rubenstein 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
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden… — Savielly Tartakower 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
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 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
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
