Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefitted by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now open to question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. Ought any, then, to refuse their aid in doing what good the good of the whole wold demands.

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task

Prohibition is the greatest effort for human advancement and betterment ever attempted in history

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.