Quotes About Prohibition

was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ

Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition.

Historically the interesting question is when and why did the prohibition on eating beef become the requirement of a good Hindu.

Evangelical support for Prohibition and worries about "godless communism" during the Cold War pushed evangelicals toward the political right during the twentieth century. Opposition on the part of some to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal led to attenuated suspicions of capitalism and eventually to an embrace of commerce.

Y eso es lo que nuestra sociedad no maneja bien: enseguida escondemos o prohibimos tácitamente el sufrimiento.

É preciso ter a coragem e a autoridade de um Tolstói para nadar contra a corrente, desafiar as proibições e o clima geral da opinião pública e fazer o que manda sua consciência do dever".

If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it, it is like investigating mercury vapor in order to comprehend the nature of vapors.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

Quarantine: No admittance!

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

What is not generally remembered is that Prohibition was an explicitly religious exercise, being the joint product of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the pious lobbying of certain Protestant missionary societies.

The problem with the prohibition of any desirable commodity is money.

To drink this much in one session would kill even an Aberdeen harlot.

The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.

When I'm king", said Angel, "I'll outlaw golf.

A specific statutory provision that contravenes a general constitutional injunction or prohibition is invalid.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

I wasn't allowed to ever have a drink or go into a bar, or even see a non-Christian gig when I was younger.

L'ateismo, per me, non è un risultato, e tanto meno un avvenimento - come tale non lo conosco: io lo intendo per istinto. Sono troppo curioso, troppo problematico, troppo tracotante, perché possa piacermi una risposta grossolana. Dio è una risposta grossolana, un'indelicatezza verso noi pensatori - in fondo è solo un grossolano divieto che ci viene fatto: non dovete pensare!

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Tossing away a piece of paper is clearly taboo.

Ya no me atrevo a hacer nada, porque tengo miedo de que esté prohibido".

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.