#prohibit

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. ↗

— Al Capone

#nothing #prohibition #trouble

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#days #during #forced #i #live

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#certain #declare #either #fools #inhabitants

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#amendment #children #community #families #first

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#number #parts #prohibitive #required #were

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#banned #burned #heretics #point #point of view

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

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#calamity #comes #death #doubts #feared

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

— Lil Wayne

#down #future #past #prohibits #tear