45 Quotes About Prohibition

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

I believe in being everlastingly on the warpath.

PROHIBITION FOR THE POOR'...From a criminal viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern negro speaks volumes for national prohibition.

The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the currently popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old bad habits for new and less harmful ones.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

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

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.