People Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

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

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

— Gore Vidal

“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 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

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

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

— J. Jayalalithaa

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

— Milton Friedman

We are for abstinence, not prohibition. Prohibition leads to many socio-legal problems. Wherever liquor has been prohibited, there is a tendency to consume through…

— Pinarayi Vijayan