Quotes About Prohibition

Etatism, as a theory, is the doctrine of the omnipotence of the State, and, as a policy, the attempt to regulate all mundane affairs by authoritative commandment and prohibition. The ideal society of etatism is a particular sort of socialistic community; it is usual in discussions involving this ideal society to speak of State Socialism, or, in some connexions, of Christian Socialism.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into

another cogent reason for prohibiting clerical marriage. Married priests were too liable to transmit to their sons their ecclesiastical offices and the church property under their care.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

She was not allowed to write to him

Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

Interdit de boire, interdit de fumer, interdit de manger trop gras ou trop sucré, à force de vouloir nous faire vivre plus longtemps, c'est le goût de vivre qu'ils vont nous enlever [...].

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

Successful law is simply the publication of the practice of the majority of units of a society, and by it the inevitable variable units are either driven to conform or are eliminated. We have had many examples of law trying to be the well-spring of action; our prohibition law showed how completely fallacious that theory is.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. Very

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

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

Por eso las grandes obras de arte se han construido siempre alrededor del pecado. - Lo cual, en el fondo, significa construirlas alrededor de Dios. - Naturalmente, porque sin Dios el pecado no existe. Y se han construido alrededor del pecado, porque el pecado está prohibido y tiene castigo, y eso es lo estético: el conflicto entre la prohibición y la culpa. Mejor dicho, el arte es la chispa que resulta de frotar la prohibición con el castigo.

I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

The funniest things are the forbidden.