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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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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
— Leo Rosten
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The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
— Eleanor Bron
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
— William Hurt
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
— Alain Badiou
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Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like…
— James P. Gorman
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The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
— Sam Vaknin
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I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.
— Emily Levine
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No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
— Tucker Max
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There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're…
— Geoff Stults
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Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.
— Sam Vaknin
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The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present,…
— Sam Vaknin
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