Prohibition Quotes
170 quotes by 135 authors
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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
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
— Jello Biafra
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
— Carrie Nation
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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
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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
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After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
— William Hazlitt
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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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