Prohibition Quotes - Page 5

• 90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

  Gary Johnson

  Marijuana, Use, Politics

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• Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We can do it with pot legalization.

  Gary Johnson

  Marijuana, Borders, Mouths

  "Yes, It Is time for Pot Legalization, Mr. President" by Gary Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  Sallust

  Men, Political, Wish

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• Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Sex, Teaching

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• Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Men, Law

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.292

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• Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Sex, Couple

  "Bloomberg blasts gay marriage ban while in N.C." by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. May 13, 2012.

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• People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Forgotten, Amnesia

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• We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.

  Fabrice Hadjadj

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

  Libba Bray

  Drink, I Can

  Libba Bray (2015). “It's Just a Jump to the Left”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

  Julian Tuwim

  Strong, Scratches, Fidelity

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Compassion, Punishment, Drug

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Torture, Circumstances, Regard

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Strong, Principles, Example

  "CELAC / Zone of Peace: 'A key step to countering the globalization of militarism' – UN Expert". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights News Item, www.ohchr.org. February 03, 2014.

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• I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

  Terence Winter

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.

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• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Snakes, Roots

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

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• Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.

  Craig Lancaster

  Pet, Welcome, Sometimes

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• The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

  Dane DeHaan

  Jobs, Reality, Doe

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• Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Voice, Giving

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• 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

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Evil, Trying, Liquor

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings to life an amazing cast of characters, including Sherwood Anderson, and the often deadly battles of Prohibition. The Wettest County in the World is a remarkably compelling, highly intelligent, and deeply moving novel.

  Margot Livesey

  Moving, Character, Intelligent

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