WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:38:07 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg organized crime – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Vidal, Gore -- “The State of the Union”, Esquire (May 1975) https://wist.info/vidal-gore/19553/ https://wist.info/vidal-gore/19553/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:23:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19553 The period of Prohibition — called the noble experiment — brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.


Gore Vidal (1925-2012) American novelist, dramatist, critic
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