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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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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial…
— Jules Henry
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage…
— Edward Abbey
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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,…
— Edward Abbey
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The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based…
— Noam Chomsky
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I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help…
— Taiichi Ohno
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this…
— Thomas Szasz
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that…
— Bertrand Russell
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Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned…
— Bertrand Russell
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Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of…
— Cindy Crawford
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