Addict Quote by Milton Friedman

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of…

— Franklin P. Adams

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

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

There is pain in prohibition

— Anonymous

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

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness.…

— Glenn Loury

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our…

— Milton Friedman

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail…

— Ralph Nader