Top 11 American Prohibition Quotes
#1. Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
Neil Young
#2. There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Bill Bryson
#3. The truth is that people who live for the future are, as we say of the insane, "not quite all there" - or here: by overeagerness they are perpetually missing the point. Foresight is bought at the price of anxiety, and, when overused, it destroys all its own advantages. The
Alan W. Watts
#4. Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
Herbert J. Muller
#5. British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.
Christopher Hitchens
#6. If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.
David Levithan
#7. Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
- Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
#8. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
James Reston
#9. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#10. Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American war on words. When you forbid a word, you give it power. Self-proclaimed rebels will use words like shit or fuck, simply to shock and sound cool.
Oliver Markus
#11. Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
Damon Knight
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