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2007 March 23
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"If the Fed had a war on abortion
like its war on poverty or war on drugs,
within 5 years men would be having abortions!" |
"Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings
for making everything compulsory
that isn't forbidden." |
"Jena by this time was a center of antitobacco activism -- mainly through the labors of Karl Astel, director of the new institute [Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research] and president, since the summer of 1939, of the University of Jena. Astel was head of the Thuringia's office of Racial Affairs and a notorious antisemite and racial hygienist (he had joined the Nazi party and the SS in July of 1930) ... Astel was also a militant antismoker and teetolater who once characterized opposition to tobacco as a 'national socialist duty.' On May 1, 1941, he banned smoking in all buildings and classrooms of the University of Jena, and the following spring, as head of Thuringia's Public Health Office, he announced a smoking ban in all regional schools and health offices. Tobacco in his view had to be fought 'cigar by cigar, cigarette by cigarette, and pack by pack' -- hence his notoriety for snatching cigarettes from the mouth of students who dared to violate his Jena University tobacco ban." |
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2007 March 22
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"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom." |
"Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?" |
"A man must keep a little back shop
where he can be himself without reserve.
In solitude alone can he know true freedom." |
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2007 March 21
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"The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among
two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead
to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write." |
"If you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine." |
"Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits
requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth
and the possibility of opposing view having some light
on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth." |
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2007 March 20
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"Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim
crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has
led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that
intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and
entrapment.
Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police
infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the
privacy of individuals." |
"The things most people want to know about
are usually none of their business." |
"The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is." |
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2007 March 19
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"A book is the only place in which you can
examine a fragile thought without breaking it,
or explore an explosive idea without
fear it will go off in your face...
one of the few havens remaining where
a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." |
"I’m going to introduce a resolution
to have the postmaster general stop
reading dirty books and deliver the mail." |
"Another defining feature of therapeutic ethos, then, is the growing
tendency to define a range of human behaviors as diseases or pathologies." |
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