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Prohibition was better than no liquor at all. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced. — Frank McCourt

Fidelity
a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch. — Julian Tuwim

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. — Ovadia Yosef

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

Wine is stronger than reason. — Marty Rubin

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition. — Ring Lardner Jr.

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

And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe's Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content. — Donald O'Donovan

Prohibition is the trigger of crime. — Ian Fleming

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

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. — Jello Biafra

Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it. — Marty Rubin

It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going. — Mona Rodriguez

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

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

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

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page. — Jami Attenberg

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

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

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

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

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

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. — Lawrence Durrell

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

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

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. — Libba Bray

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners. — Charles Dickens

We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition. — Bertrand Russell

If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams? — Srinivas Shenoy

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

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

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

A total prohibition against lying is also ethically incoherent in anyone but a true pacifist. — Sam Harris

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

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related. — Gary Johnson

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space — Arthur Miller

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. — Richard M. Nixon

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. — Ethan Nadelmann

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. — Drew Carey

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

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

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble — Al Capone

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

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

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. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis

For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ... — Augustine Of Hippo

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is. — Karl R. Popper

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

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

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

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

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. — Elena Ferrante

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

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

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into — Don Marquis

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art. — Ian Caldwell

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

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition. — Theodore H. White

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

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

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. — Will Rogers

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

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

We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to. — Barbara Kingsolver

To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy — Umberto Eco

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

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