“ For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ”
- Jello Biafra- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts — wets, drys, and hypocrites. ”
- Florence Sabin- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Sexual intercourse began in 1963 — Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP. ”
- Philip Larkin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes… ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 1.5K
“ All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. ”
- Michael Malone- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am. ”
- Peter Sellers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. ”
- John Conyers- Copy
- 3.8K
“ This is unheard of... Talking to Israel was taboo in Pakistan. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
- 271
“ We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. ”
- Robert Mugabe- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
- 4K
“ Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Communism is like prohibition: it is a good idea, but it won't work. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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