#prohibit

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. ↗

— Nathan Deal

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

— W. C. Fields

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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

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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. ↗

— Dudley North

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Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#anybody #anything #colleges #constitutional #constitutional amendment

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#etc #goods #initiated #materials #other

The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to the prohibitionist regime. The fact that some of the most successful people of our time, be it in business, finances, politics, entertainment or the arts, are current or former substance users is a fundamental refutation of its premises and a stinging rebuttal of its rationale. A criminal law that is broken at least once by 50% of the adult population and that is broken on a regular basis by 20% of the same adult population is a broken law, a fatally flawed law. How can a democratic government justify a law that is consistently broken by a substantial minority of the population? What we are witnessing here is a massive case of civil disobedience not seen since alcohol prohibition in the 1930 in the US. On what basis can a democratic system justify the stigmatization and discrimination of a strong minority of as much as 20% of its population? ↗

— Jeffrey Dhywood

#bill-clinton #drug-policy-reform #g-w-bush #prohibitionism #war-on-drugs