The Gallery: Quotes

Every social order creates those character forms which it needs for
it’s preservation.

–Wilhelm Reich

“Much virtue in herbs, little in men.”

—
Benjamin Franklin

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

—
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

If 25 years of smoking “dope” has addled my brain, I must have been an
intellectual giant in my youth. . .

–Tim Shadbolt, Author, “Bullshit and
Jellybeans”

Prohibition makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.

–US president “Honest” Abraham
Lincoln

. . .but I didn’t inhale.

–US president Bill Clinton

“Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? … I
bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any
of that.'”

—
US president George Bush,
talking about drug abuse to a group of students

What is politics after all but the compulsion to presice over property
and make other’s people’s decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite
of ownership and control, cannot then result from political action,
either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of
attitude.

–Tom Robbins, Author, “Skinny Legs and
All”

Weed can get you through times of no money; money cannot get you through times of no
weed.

–Fat Freddy Freak of the Fabulous
Freak Bros.

—

“Grass is for the ass; herb is for mankind.”

“herb is the healing of all nations”

—
Bob Marley

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

—
Genesis 1:29

“America; first we fight for our freedom, then we make laws to take it
away.”

—
Alfred E. Newman

“Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what’s good for people than
people do is a swine.”

—
P.J. O’Rourke

“I can envisage a new world in which society has a way for there to
be music, whose function is to get you high, that’s the sort of thing
we’re hammering at. To get really high is to forget yourself; and to
forget yourself is to see everything else; and to see everything else
is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool
of the universe. That’s why I thimk it’s important to get high.”

—
Jerry Garcia

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