#prohibit

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#extra #i #paid #personally #price

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#intoxicating #let us #liquors #manufacture #midst

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#bombing #come #conquer #defender #different

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#classroom #criticism #evolution #prohibiting #theory

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#awareness #breast cancer #bush #cancer #cultures

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#bad #companies #even #extent #good

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy. ↗

— William F. Buckley

#civil-rights #drug-laws #drugs #marijuana #prohibition

Prohibition... 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... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#crime

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#down #future #past #prohibits #tear