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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
— William J. Brennan
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…
— John Climacus
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Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element…
— Dalai Lama
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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting…
— Gerald Brenan
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject…
— Strom Thurmond
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In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…
— Sigmund Freud
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But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be…
— Unknown Author
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in…
— Vaclav Havel
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