Quotes About Prohibition

But why is it prohibited? asked the Savage. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. The Controller shrugged his shoulders. Because it's old; that's the chief reason. We haven't any use for old things here. Even when they're beautiful? Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Occidente sólo permite el uso sin trabas del alcohol y del tabaco. Las demás Puertas químicas en el Muro se califican de tóxicos y quienes las toman sin autorización son Viciosos.

Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft -- certainly not -- but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.

Tell him your parents have strictly forbidden you to play for anything but nuts.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

After Prohibition got under way, alcohol consumption spiked—and continued to rise even as the quality of the spirits plummeted. For a whole generation, across class lines, defying the dry law became an act of self-definition—a necessary rebellion against a sordid, hypocritical ruling class.

We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition

used to describe some occult practice, related to drug use—potions, drugs, and so forth. This means that the translation of sorcery in Galatians 5:20 is probably a good one. But even today, the connection between drug use and occult practices is not entirely severed. But even when there is no occultism, this does not make the prohibition of pharmakeia irrelevant to the modern "secular" drug user. Ancient drug use was

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Explicar las cosas tal y como han sucedido es lo más aburrido del mundo. Debería de estar prohibido. Yo invento las historias por pura cortesía.

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It's not that hair cannot be seen. It's an identity, as opposed to having to cover your hair.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always get a drink.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.