Quotes About Prohibition

I've outlawed "meds," "bestie," "bucket list," "dysfunctional," "expat," "cab-sav," and the verb "do" when used in a restaurant, as in "I'll do the snails on cinnamon toast.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

Hold on, I won't have to read anything, will I? I'm not allowed to look at words, reading's sinful.

Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.

Pero lo más innovador fue que la reina obtuvo del papa Clemente X el levantamiento de la prohibición a la presencia de las mujeres en los espectáculos artisticos. Sobre Cristina de Suecia.

No toys in the fish tank

The ultimate lesson to prohibition is two-fold. Watch out for solutions that end up worse than the problems they set out to solve, and remember the Constitution is no place for experiments, noble or otherwise." – D. Duane Steward, PhD

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

Oh, good," he muttered. "We're going to discuss it now." "No discussion," she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. "It's perfectly simple. No One Must Ever Know." He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. "Do you know," he said, "I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized.

in certain regions of Italy, women of ill-repute or evil looks are forbidden to enter cheese factories.

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

This applies, however, only to those who are within the specified age: after that we allow them to range at will, except that a man may not marry his daughter or his daughter's daughter, or his mother or his mother's mother; and women, on the other hand, are prohibited from marrying their sons or fathers, or son's son or father's father, and so on in either direction.

in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.

Nitimur in vetitum -- We strive after the forbidden

In Washington, D.C., where the Volstead Act—which provided for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment—had been militantly approved, the police reported nearly a ten-fold increase in drunk driving arrests since the legislation was enacted.

The Prohibition era had been a great source of material for building an excellent science of alcohol intoxication

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it.

In the late 1830s, China stepped up its efforts to stop the trade in opium and this led to the Opium Wars of 1839–42 and 1856–60.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions...More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature.