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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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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily…
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Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced…
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine…
— Thomas Szasz
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If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time.…
— Jay Adams
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A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.
— Curnonsky
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The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
— Marcel Proust
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So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to…
— John Gerstner
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
— Beatrix Potter
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the…
— Margaret Atwood
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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