Quotes About Prohibition

We always want what we're not allowed.

Hollywood and the music industry did everything they could to stop the copying. To no avail. They succeeded only in making enemies of their customers.) Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.

Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.

Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long counterproductive. A

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

By the way, remember that, all of you. On no account go up to the fourth floor.

Some doors are best left closed.

Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire.

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.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition is surely one of the ironies in the history of alcohol.

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.

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

For some reason the past—any of our pasts—was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

In short, drugs are the worst thing that has happened to American law enforcement since Prohibition.

Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

From 1500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty; in 1551 it became a crime even to go to sea in such a ship.21 The records of Zheng He's journeys were destroyed. Zheng He himself died and was almost certainly buried at sea. What

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

Nothing optional—from homo-sexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Nothing optional - from homosexuality to adultery - is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate.