Prohibition Quotes

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

With the combination of free streaming video and online betting pools, companies could be faced with serious bandwidth and productivity issues, not to mention many organizations` prohibition of Internet gambling in their company policy. Our customers will be able to continue with business-as-usual and not worry about employee distractions on game day.

When you have a war, there`s going to be casualties, and there`s going to be collateral damage. ... None of this would be happening if we ended the prohibition on drugs the way we ended the prohibition on alcohol.

The prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment ... is absolute and nonnegotiable, ... It is wrong to suggest that this ... has changed as a result of the recent terrorist threats. There cannot be any question of ?striking the right balance? when absolute rights are at stake.

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don`t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it`s irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe`s. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Communism is like prohibition, it`s a good idea but it won`t work.

Communism is like Prohibition, it`s a good idea but it won`t work

There is pain in prohibition