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Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child… — Gore Vidal
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no… — Peter McWilliams
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into… — Billy Sunday
And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all… — Bill Hicks
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address… — David Satcher
Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable… — Gore Vidal
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in… — Noam Chomsky
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being… — Frank Zappa
I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or form, I'm going… — Bill O'Reilly
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today. — Ethan Nadelmann
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience… — Milton Friedman
The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. — Janet Reno
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings… — Margot Livesey
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From my earliest years… — John George Haigh
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future… — Mark Thornton
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can. — Libba Bray
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. — Pope Benedict XVI
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it… — H. L. Mencken
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and… — Craig Lancaster

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