Quotes about Prohibition

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There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the m — Joseph Pennell
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its gre — Mona Rodriguez
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381). — Mona Rodriguez
Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57 — Mona Rodriguez
With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely i — Daniel Waterman
His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page. — Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie
They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   'What does one do in America when o — Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy
You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evi — ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥaddād
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I beli — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything — Baruch Spinoza
And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own — Daniel Waterman, Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
Prohibition is the trigger of crime. — Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and — Jimmy Carter
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. — Richard M. Nixon
All right. Then I'll begin... It's the tale of a man who drank the demon's liquor and gained immortality. That miserable — Ryohgo Narita, バッカーノ！The Rolling Bootlegs
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibia — Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way
ShanTu said that we must set the soul free from the body and its lusts. Having thus got rid of the foolishness of the fl — Susan Cartwright, Wolf Dawn
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of — Mark Twain
It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going. — Mona Rodriguez