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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for… — William Randolph Hearst
It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country. — Fiorello H. La Guardia
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with… — William J. Brennan
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by… — Pope Benedict XVI
We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but… — Unknown Author
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.… — John T. Flynn
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing… — Christopher Hitchens
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures. — Aldous Huxley
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best… — Michael Chekhov
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity. — Sinclair Lewis
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living… — Rowan Williams
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. — Vicente Fox
Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some… — Michael Bloomberg
[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough… — Unknown Author
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the… — Dixie Lee Ray
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts… — Eustace Mullins
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy… — Unknown Author
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. — Milton Friedman
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a… — E. M. Forster
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better… — Harriet Martineau
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but… — Otto Hahn

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