Organized crime Quote by Sebastian Marshall

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil…

— John D. Rockefeller

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

“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”

— Ian Fleming

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

— Al Capone

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“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

“Consider second- and third-order consequences, not just first-order ones”

— Ray Dalio

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 is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so…

— Marcus Garvey

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

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