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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 Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition…
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the…
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,…
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…
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I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and…
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The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best…
— Michel de Montaigne
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…
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It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative…
— James Madison
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said…
— John Joseph Griffin
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The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,…
— Barbara G. Walker
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The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a…
— George Orwell
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