Behind closed doors Quote by Mark Twain

“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Milton Friedman

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find…

— Frederick Lenz

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists.…

— H. L. Mencken

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

— Nellie L. McClung

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 makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

— Don Marquis