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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…
• Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
• I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…
• We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to…
• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
• Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive…
• We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…
• Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other…
• Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
• Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond.…
• Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
• 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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