Prohibition Quotes - Page 8

• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The Spirit has determined that he will operate through certain means and at certain times and if we sinfully put obstacles or warnings or prohibitions in the way, he may well not do for us what he otherwise would have done.

  Sam Storms

  Mean, Done, Spirit

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

  Khushwant Singh

  Thinking, Issues, Doctors

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

  Clarence Darrow

  Summer, New York, Vacation

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• The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Buddhist, Practice, Speech

  "Buddhist Teacher Meditates on Return to Judaism" by Rebecca Radner, www.sfgate.com. February 13, 1997.

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• America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

  James Inhofe

  America, Reason, Terrorist

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• The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Greatness, Shining

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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• A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Government, Modern, Restriction

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• The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Doe, Needs

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Alcohol, Political

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• We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Strong, People, Reform

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• The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Snakes, Poison, Arms

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• Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Writing

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much more harm than good - it has been primarily a moral reason: I don't think the state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.

  Milton Friedman

  Marijuana, Thinking, Mouths

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• And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, People

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• During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hands, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite a debate over the church's prohibition of the use of condoms to stop the spread of the AIDS virus. The pope also criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as 'not Christian' for his immigration stance, and broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions if they want to.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Sex, Presidential

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a ChristianThe Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Saying Yes, Toddler

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Long, Majority

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• Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

  Michael Pollan

  Sweet, Wind, Apples

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.44, Random House

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• From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

  Yehuda Levi

  Tree, Sage, Fruit

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• ...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Block, Military, Technology

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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• Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Matter

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