Quotes About Prohibition

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

I'm telling you right now, you'll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Go, and never darken my towels again

Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend.

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.

For something to be forbidden, Leila, someone must make it forbidden. Ask why. Always ask yourself why.

So, what were you doing that was such a secret?" "Making moonshine." I stared. "You're kidding me." "Nope." "Moonshine? As in rednecks and brown jugs and prohibition?" Ida Belle drew herself up straight. "It hasn't been illegal in quite some time. We're hardly rednecks, and we put all of our moonshine into pretty pink cough syrup bottles.

The drug dealers are all capitalists and criminals, selling rubbish at high prices. Marijuana and hash should be legalized and the rest should be prohibited.

Two or three people had gone to Limerick and bought 'The Country Girls.' The parish priest asked them to hand in the books, which they did, and he burnt them on the grounds of the church.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

Hay algo de prohibido en el hastío, algo que hace avergonzarse de hastiarse. Como si no bastara con el sufrimiento está también la vergüenza.