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Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
Even some of our cookbooks are banned. (Though it's been centuries, at least, since the Pitches ate fairies.) (You can't even find fairies anymore.) (And it isn't because we ate them all.)
Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.
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.
Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
Tobacco and religious organisations.
the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
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.
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy.
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures. This Law they were perpetually repeating, I found, and - perpetually breaking.
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.
Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.
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 ...
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
Bad laws make bad customs.
Breaches of Sharia law, some involving domesticated animals.
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.
Do not sanction an absurdity.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.
Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.
Rules, guidelines, and even laws are someone's opinion about how things should be done. Nothing more.
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
Every society seeks to confine me to the august limits of the permitted and the prohibited. But I do not acknowledge these limits, for nothing is forbidden and all is permitted to those who have the force, and the valor.
Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?
All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
them.
Forbidden, but fun!
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night
the restrictions, rules, and guidelines
was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Rules and regulations are for humans.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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.
Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.
When you ban substances that people enjoy using so much that they'll break the law to do it, you create a black market with huge profits. And since purveyors of illicit drugs have no legal way to secure their investment, the trade will be run by increasingly violent criminals.
Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people"s ability to accept things in the private realm as long as they are not made part of the structure of the law.
You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We [Americans] permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?
'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
The powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself upon him already in times of peace, namely, that the state forbids him to do wrong not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.
Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
Law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to.
Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.
If I could have banned them all ... I would have!
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.
Rules are meant to be broken.
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
What am I forbidden now?
Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation
What you allow, you encourage.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
Question everything - ban nothing
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these people would have us believe, that a man is more free where there is least law and more restricted where there is most law.
Generally I'm against regulation.
The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.
If it were up to me we'd ban them all.Ban-- Mel Reynolds
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.
The law often allows what honor forbids.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
the free rights of men to destroy themselves through ignorance.
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.
People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.
Regulations are just guidelines.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.