Quotes about Prohibition

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Think of Oscar Wilde's wonderful scene in his play Salome, when Herod hears reports that Jesus of Nazareth has been raising the dead. "I do not wish him to do that," says Herod. "I forbid him to do that. I allow no man to raise the dead. This man must be found and told that

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”

Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.