12-step-program Quote by Lance Dodes

“The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world. Let it rage, let it kill.”

— William Carlos Williams

“Prohibition kills, education saves lives”

— Dominic Milton Trott

“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”

— Ian Fleming

“Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled…

— Owen Jones

“Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.”

— John Grisham

“That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition…

— Jack London

“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power in the…

— Peter B. Lockhart

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

“Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.”

— Oliver Bullough

“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is no accident:…

— Lance Dodes

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we…

— Drew Carey