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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
— Philip Gibbs
Prohibition is the trigger of crime.
— Ian Fleming
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
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 snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.
— Jesse Ventura
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
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
— Morgan Freeman
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
— Milton Friedman
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
— Milton Friedman
On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.
— Charles Dickens
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
— Sylvia Boorstein
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
— Sinclair Lewis
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
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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
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
His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.
— Jami Attenberg
When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.
— Ian Caldwell
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
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
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
— James Surowiecki
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
