Prohibition Quotes

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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

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

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

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

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

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

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.