Quotes About Prohibition

Tal vez si prohibieran la literatura como la cocaína, la gente por puro morbo, buscaría meterse un par de líneas.

If, to obviate this consequence, it should be resolved to extend the prohibition to the raising of armies in time of peace, the United States would then exhibit the most extraordinary spectacle which the world has yet seen, that of a nation incapacitated by its Constitution to prepare for defense, before it was actually invaded.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.

I'm suggesting that the prohibition on people who survive on money coming from government, that includes pensioners and public servants, standing for Parliament - it's absurd.

Históricamente, Cuba había escapado siempre de la realidad gracias a la sátira y a la burla. Sin embargo, con Fidel Castro, el sentido del humor fue desapareciendo hasta quedar prohibido; con eso el pueblo cubano perdió una de sus pocas posibilidades de supervivencia; al quitarle la risa le quitaron al pueblo el más profundo sentido de las cosas.

If we listen to Satan, who may sound like a very progressive and likeable educator, we may feel initially that we are "liberated," but this impression does not last because Satan deprives us of everything that protects us from rivalistic imitation. Rather than warning us of the trap that awaits us, Satan makes us fall into it. He applauds the idea that prohibitions are of no use and that transgressing them contains no danger.

If the Decalogue devotes its final commandment to prohibiting desire for whatever belongs to the neighbor, it is because it lucidly recognizes in that desire the key to the violence prohibited in the four commandments that precede it. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.

those working men who, before prohibition, could not resist the lure of the saloon on the way home Saturday night

We call such a prohibition a curfew, a word derived from Norman French covre le feu: "cover the fire!

I mean when someone says I forbid it, that's a good sign it's worth doing.

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter...No Women's Bathroom

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

No buts, Ben. No. 'N' and 'O' spells 'no'.

that she wasn't 'allowed', which

În clipa când È›i se impune s? nu te gândeÈ™ti la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. InterdicÈ›ia devine obligaÈ›ie.

The means of pressure on publishers were considerable,59 including the purging of public libraries and the publication of lists of undesirable authors,60 whose works had then to be withdrawn from circulation.61 Ever fuller lists of books prohibited from sale were published by the Börsenblatt.

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.

When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.

World War I killed upwards of fifteen millions, wreaked immeasurable physical, social, and psychic damage, and left most of the citizens of the belligerent powers with a deep conviction that war must in some way be prohibited.

Was this America--this my home Prohibition and Teapot Dome-- Speakeasies, night clubs, illicit stills, Dark faces peering behind dark grills, Hold-ups, kidnappings, hootch or booze-- Everyone gambling--you just can't lose, Was this my country?

At last no liquor was allowed to the workmen until after the day's work was over, and thus fatal accidents were prevented.

Les retrouvailles sont des phénomènes si complexes qu'on ne devrait les effectuer qu'après un long apprentissage ou bien tout simplement les interdire. Elle

Si las palabras tienen una memoria similar, no hay duda de que la palabra «no» es la que más cadáveres tiene en su activo.