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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to…
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
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Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive…
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other…
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond.…
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
— F. Lee Bailey
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could…
— Kenneth Clarke
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I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any…
— Kenneth Lay
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
— Thomas Szasz
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,…
— Karl Marx
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It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.
— Kangna Ranaut
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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a…
— Christopher Darden
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The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into…
— Unknown Author
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