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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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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its…
— Pliny the Elder
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Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
— Josh Billings
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to…
— Michio Kaku
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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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…
— Thomas Szasz
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