Quotes About Prohibition

Weren't allowed to carry blasters.

Israeli Defense Force Order 101, Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions, was put into effect in 1967. It forbade Palestinians to use the word Palestine in official documents, to depict or raise or fly their flag, or to make any sort of art that combined the colors of the traditional flag.

it was forbidden to tread with your feet on the name of G-d.

Y mientras mis piernas de autómata seguían andando, me impresionó el hecho de que sencillamente no sabía una palabra sobre el espíritu de mi niña querida, y que sin duda, más allá de los terribles clichés juveniles, había en ella un jardín y un crepúsculo y el portal de un palacio: regiones vagarosas y adorables, completamente prohibidas para mí, ajenas a mis sucios andrajos y a mis convulsiones.

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

When fun is forbidden, it is all the more treasured.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

That order would prove impossible to enforce, as would another clause prohibiting the use of firearms

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

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Cow Shoes" These were used by moonshiners during prohibition to disguise their footprints. The fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade the police. "Ain't nothing out here but cows and corn

I bar the candles,.... I bar the magic-lantern business.

Some employers banned drinking on the job and tried even to forbid their workers to drink off the job. For men who considered their thrice-daily tipple a right, this was another mark of slavery.

I can't believe I actually have to say this out loud: Don't give the children any whiskey!

In other words, it was the one place on earth where she was required by law to stay away from me.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

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.

But it is also true that things that begin in Kansas—the Civil War, Prohibition, Populism, Pizza Hut—have a historical tendency to go national. Maybe Kansas, instead of being a laughingstock, is actually in the vanguard. Maybe what has happened there points the way in which all our public policy debates are heading. Maybe someday soon the political choices of Americans everywhere will be whittled down to the two factions of the Republican Party.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.

One cannot help wondering if the day will ever arrive when tailoring clothes for people in accordance with their height and girth will ever be considered discriminatory and therefore prohibited; such a practice must of necessity make (invidious) distinctions between individuals, and this is what the equalitarian philosophy would appear to deem improper.

canon gives orders that no more prayers are to be offered up for the British government.