Best Prohibition Thoughts
170 Prohibition quotes by 126 unique authors
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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
— Laozi
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Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful…
— James Carriger Paine
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Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep,…
— Erik Erikson
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Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of…
— Rose George
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition…
— Ban Ki-moon
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We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
— Don Marquis
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this…
— Gary Johnson
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The constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business…
— Hugo Black
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three
— Italian Proverb
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If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them.
— Benjamin Hawkins
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Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud.
— Unknown Author
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would…
— Will Rogers
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Give yourself one night to waste with me. Come, break every prohibition. We will be corrupt, and if it's a crime. What can we do?…
— Romeo Santos
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I love being myself. Without prohibition.
— Unknown Author
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No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enf orce criminal statutes implies substantial…
— Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.
— Herbert Hoover
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Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t he bounds…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts...wets, drys, and hypocrites.
— Unknown Author
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