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Prohibition was better than no liquor at all.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
— Nellie L. McClung
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
— Rhys Ifans
Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.
— Ovadia Yosef
Wine is stronger than reason.
— Marty Rubin
Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.
— Ring Lardner Jr.
Prohibition is the trigger of crime.
— Ian Fleming
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.
— Ethan Nadelmann
The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.
— Theodore H. White
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
— Thomas L. Masson
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
— William Kennedy
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble
— Al Capone
When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.
— Ian Caldwell
It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
— Thelonious Monk
Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.
— Elena Ferrante
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.
— Janet Reno
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
— William Hazlitt
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
— Gore Vidal
Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
— Karl R. Popper
For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ...
— Augustine Of Hippo
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.
— Dashiell Hammett