Quotes About Prohibition

from cosmology to biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that science's failure to explain matters at the most fundamental level is at least in part due to an institutional prohibition on intelligent design as one of the explanatory options.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

There are enough no smoking places now.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

En una sociedad como la nuestra son bien conocidos los procedimientos de exclusión. El más evidente, y el más familiar también, es lo prohibido.

Ley Seca no tuvo ningún efecto perceptible en la demanda de cerveza, vino y licores; especialmente en Nueva York, donde se estimaba que las 16.000 tabernas que existían en la ciudad antes de la aprobación de la Ley Volstead habían sido reemplazadas por 32.000 bares clandestinos.

La cultura sucumbe bajo el volumen de la producción, la avalancha de letras, la locura de la cantidad. Por ese motivo te digo que un libro prohibido en tu país significa infinitamente más que los millones de palabras que vomitan nuestras universidades.

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad, found in the Orange Catholic Bible

ou could talk about Prohibition, or Hemingway, or air conditioning, or music, or horses, but in the end you had to talk about the stock market, and that was when the conversation became serious.

You could talk about Prohibition, or Hemingway, or air conditioning, or music, or horses, but in the end you had to talk about the stock market, and that was when the conversation became serious.

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

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

Speakeasy bartenders used fruit juices, sometimes from canned fruit, as well as ginger ale, cream, honey, corn syrup, maple syrup, and even ice cream to make palatable the harsh flavors of spirits that Mencken described as "rye whiskey in which rats have drowned, Bourbon contaminated with arsenic and ptomaines, corn fresh from the still, gin that is three fourths turpentine, and rum rejected as too corrosive by the West Indian embalmers

In the United States, the demand for well-constructed mixed drinks grew steadily during the latter half of the nineteenth century until, in the 1890s, the Golden Age of Cocktails arrived. It would last right up to the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, but don't think for a moment that every bar in America was serving masterfully mixed drinks.

The Drunk's Blue Book, written by Norman Anthony and O. Soglow in 1933, for instance, details what the authors call the Drunk's Code: Free lunch. Free speech. Free cheers. Five-day week. Every third drink on the house. Lower curbstones. Overstuffed gutters. More lampposts. Rubber nightsticks and rolling pins. More keyholes for every door. More farmers' daughters. Colder ice. Two cocktails for a quarter. Bigger and better beers.

which had existed for 150 years, that married couples were not permitted

But slave importation became illegal in 1808.

I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.