Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
— Al-Ghazali
Emotional Prohibition quotations
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble
Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex.
The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.
Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.
Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
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.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.
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.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.
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.
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.
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote;
prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts.
Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
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.
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did.
And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
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.
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.