George Soros

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

Hungarian Businessman

Scott Pruitt

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

American Politician

Erik Erikson

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

American Psychologist

Peter Singer

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Australian Philosopher

Lauren DeStefano

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

American Author

P. Chidambaram

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

Indian Politician

Bernard Tschumi

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Swiss Architect

Jello Biafra

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

American Musician

N. Chandrababu Naidu

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.

Will Rogers

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

American Actor

Prohibition usually involves an official decision by authorities.

Government Action

Prohibition can refer to any kind of ban, not only legal ones.

Not Just Laws

Use 'prohibition' to talk about bans in different contexts, formal and informal.

Broad Usage

Prohibition is often used in a legal context, regarding laws or regulations.

Legal Context

Use 'prohibition' in formal conversations, such as in legal, academic, or official discussions.

Formal Setting

A prohibition suggests there might be consequences if the rule is broken.

Enforcement

When capitalized, Prohibition refers to a specific historical period in the U.S.

Specific Period

The Prohibition era had lasting effects on American culture, including slang.

Cultural Impact

Outside of history discussions, using 'Prohibition' to talk about alcohol bans is outdated.

Archaic Usage

 we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe make sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do. When I thought about my grandmother, of course she would think all her grandkids were special. My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by prohibition in his view the greatest harm in our culture's relationships with with drugs was the absence of a safe supply and lack of honest information about responsible use and risks this harm is a direct

Prohibition criminalizes...

 it was clear that Prohibition had not brought the social improvements it had promised. Instead it contributed to political corruption and organized crime and was flouted by millions of citizens. At one raid on an Detroit beer hall, the local sheriff, mayor and a congressman

Prohibition: Banning...

 Other scholars took up the theme, and the proposed analogies and connections multiplied. They suggested that Dorothy's dog Toto represented the teetotalers of the prohibition party. Oz was clearly the abbreviation for ounces, an important unit in the silver debate.

Does "The Wonderful...

 between our policies of prohibition and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption. These organizations service, recruit from, and operate within our communities, so necessarily, they are much more integrated

The deadly genius of...

 prohibition or a no take and they would say stop fishing and this particular area and everybody goes to other part of the river and they found out that by doing that the marine life finds a space for them to rehabilitate themselves to

In Gorgeous Palau,...

 and punished through prohibitionist law. I don't think this is an accident. These laws have political support precisely because they target people that voters don't want to see or know about. Why else might people support prohibition?

The laws that sex...

 We live in this weird time. It's kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that's what I -- we are doing to our kids.

Laws that choke...

 Does life, as a chemical system capable of formulating, and in some cases answering, questions about its own existence, have a responsibility or should have a prohibition against sponsoring more life across the universe?

We Could Kick-Start Life...

 That's my drug education Safety first. So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past