Quotes About Prohibition In America

#1. 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.

Joseph Roth

#2. 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

#3. But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Kelsey Grammer

#5. It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation of those they deemed 'unfit', and preferential treatment in immigration law of 'Nordic' (and preferably Protestant) immigrants.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#6. America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

James Inhofe

#7. Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

Timothy Ferriss

#8. Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Isaac Watts

#9. The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Idries Shah

#10. Today you win, and tomorrow I'll steal your trophy.

Jarod Kintz

#11. You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Aaron McGruder

#12. Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

LeBron James

#13. Know that she was a good and hardworking intern, and that she died doing what she loved: simultaneously living and dying in infinite, fractal defiance of linear time.

Joseph Fink

#14. I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

Andie MacDowell

#15. 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

#16. Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

Michael Pollan

#17. Much of Texas took its prohibition seriously. Not Dalhart. It took its whiskey seriously, in part because some of the finest corn liquor in America was coming out of the High Plains.

Timothy Egan

#18. I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

Bertrand Russell

#19. Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Drew Carey

#20. There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.

Benjamin Alire Saenz