Censorship Quote by Frances Wright

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none…

— Bertrand Russell

“Every conceivable vice, it seemed, had a society in New York dedicated to its prevention.”

— Anonymous

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

— Frances Wright

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay…

— Danny Sugerman

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three…

— John Harvey Kellogg

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and…

— Thomas Szasz

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking.   Second-order consequences of Prohibition:…

— Sebastian Marshall

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

— Italo Calvino

“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…

— Gary Taubes

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

— Bill Hicks