We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.