Top 203 Prohibition Quotes & Sayings

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

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

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

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

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

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

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.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

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

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

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

I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for Parliament - it's absurd.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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 illegal means.

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

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.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

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

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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

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

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

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

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

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

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

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

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

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

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

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

What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

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 experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.