Prohibition Quotes

170 quotes by 135 authors

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to… — Michael Badnarik
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. — Jello Biafra
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. — Hugo Black
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American… — Bill Bryson
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have… — Drew Carey
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could — Carrie Nation
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects… — John D. Rockefeller
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the… — George Soros
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. — Italo Calvino
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug… — James Carriger Paine
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. — Janet Reno

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