Jello Biafra Quotes

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Prohibition begets proliferation

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

I don't like rules.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can find NO exceptions: Where the State prevents a free market, by banning any form of goods or services, consumer demand will create a black market for those goods or services, at vastly higher prices. Can YOU think of a single exception to this law?

Everything I want to do is Illegal.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.