Prohibition Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Prohibition.
Top Quotes
“Forbidden fruits are the sweetest.”
“What is forbidden is most desired.”
“In sea willingly prohibited fishing.”
“Stolen vinegar is sweeter than bought milk.”
“What is most desired by us is what is most denied to us.”
“What is permitted displeases, and what is forbidden pleases.”
“Forbidden things make desire grow. (Luigi Alamanni)”
“Whoever surrounds her garden with a hedge invites you to skip it.”
“dogma is nothing more than an explicit prohibition on thinking. (Ludwig Feuerbach)”
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“ethics prohibits us from considering men as means and Man as an end. (Nicolás Gómez Dávila)”
“To make something noble, esteemable and loved, there is nothing better than persecuting it. (Riccardo Bacchelli)”
“Making a law and not enforcing it is equivalent to authorizing the thing you want to prohibit. (Cardinal Richelieu)”
“A dangerous element of bans is that we trust them and do not think about when they should be changed. (Elias Canetti)”
“The dangerous element of bans: that we trust them and do not reflect on when they should be changed. (Elias Canetti)”
“Stripped of ethnic rationalizations and philosophical claims, a crime is anything that those in charge prohibit. (Alfred Adler)”
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“We always strive for what is forbidden and crave what is denied to us. (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata.”