Best Prohibition Sayings

170 Prohibition quotes by 126 unique authors

Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who… — Jonah Goldberg
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question.… — Abraham Lincoln
We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians… — Roland Allen
I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the gym.… — Barbara Holland
Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from… — Umar
Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective. — Zach Braff
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew… — Hugo Black
The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption,… — Kurt Schmoke
I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I… — Michael Douglas
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on… — Theodore Dalrymple
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow,… — Henry George
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also.… — Nadine Strossen
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should… — Cliff Stearns
All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have… — Kin Hubbard
We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws - these are among… — Samuel Epstein
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out'… — Savielly Tartakower
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble — Al Capone
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive… — Ludwig von Mises
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated… — Danny Sugerman
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It… — Mark Twain
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition. — Mary Parker Follett
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit… — H. L. Mencken
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and… — Noam Chomsky
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author,… — Gore Vidal

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