Distinguished Quote by Kin Hubbard

There is pain in prohibition

— Anonymous

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t he…

— Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

— Pope Benedict XVI

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

— Milton Friedman

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

— Milton Friedman

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

— Rhys Ifans

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known…

— Gore Vidal

“Prohibitionism is based on the premise that citizens will refrain from behaviors that are deemed immoral or harmful if such behaviors are decreed unlawful…

— Jeffrey Dhywood