Quotes About Prohibition

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

El amor era una debilidad que él no se podía permitir.

Its continued illegality was proof that lying and/or stupidity was a cornerstone of government policy.

In a rebuke to American gateway theorists who argued that marijuana stimulates an appetite for addictive narcotics, Dutch experts determined that social factors rather than the pharmacological properties of cannabis were germane to hard drug use. While marijuana smoking in and of itself did not function as a stepping-stone, marijuana prohibition put cannabis consumers in contact with pushers selling an array of illicit substances.

Taboo is not a word considered with any seriousness in the Old World.

The availability of domesticated animal species played an important role in the prohibition of cannibalism and the development of religions of love and mercy in the states and empires of the Old World. Christianity, it may yet turn out, was more the gift of the lamb in the manger than the child who was born in it.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

We cannot even imagine all that God has suffered us not to do, not to be.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Os homens não podem dispor de uma capacidade para o prazer para que ela seja depreciada, proibida e reprimida.

This is the nameless land, they say. To you, who for reasons unknowable glimpse here these words. Good people, do not mistake the terms of the agreement: Do not ask men for the story of the nameless land. Do not move lips and tongue in an imitation of the tongue of the nameless land. Do not treat as men those who are imprisoned in the nameless land.

Fatherhood must continue, no matter how many veils are cast on it. Because even the priest aspires to be called father, despite the prohibition for the majority of them to have children.

Think of Oscar Wilde's wonderful scene in his play Salome, when Herod hears reports that Jesus of Nazareth has been raising the dead. "I do not wish him to do that," says Herod. "I forbid him to do that. I allow no man to raise the dead. This man must be found and told that

More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do." —2011 UN Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of National, Racial, or Religious Hatred

You can ask me for anything you like, except time

He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent, naughty notes—perfect for small and secret spaces.

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.

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

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

I don't like the way you keep turning up corpses – female corpses, at that – on St Mungo's land, Gil. We'll ha no more of them, if you don't mind.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.