Quotes About Prohibition

Four states prohibited the marriage of alcoholics, 17 prohibited the marriage of epileptics, and 41 prohibited the marriage of those deemed feebleminded or insane. By the mid-1930s, America was the world leader in banned marriages. (Marriage restriction laws weren't declared unconstitutional until 1967.)

I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. You see?

Eat, drink, and couple like minks, for tomorrow you could come down with one hell of a pony drip, and Mrs. Lee will ban you from the premises.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.í Only when the ramís horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your fatherís daughter or your motherís daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís sister; she is your fatherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with your motherís sister, for she is your motherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ëYou must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.í”

He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

But he went only as far as the kingís gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.