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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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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it…
— Richard Dawkins
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War…
— Unknown Author
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The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume…
— Dale Dauten
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Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and…
— Adam Schiff
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Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
— Byron Dorgan
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Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered…
— Martin Esslin
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
— Spider Robinson
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The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…
— Thomas Szasz
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Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent…
— Diane Ackerman
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
— Ashley Montagu
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like…
— Quentin Crisp
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
— Quentin Crisp
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