Orders Can Be Benign Or Malign, But

The Idea That Man Is A Tabula Rasa, Or Mao's Sheet Of Blank Paper Upon Which The Most Beautiful Characters Can Be Written, Is An Old One With Disastrous Implications. I Do Not Think Though That The Cults You Mention Could Survive Honest Thought About Human Nature.

The Need Always To Lie And Always To Avoid The Truth Stripped Everyone Of What Custine Called 'the Two Greatest Gifts Of God-the Soul And The Speech Which Communicates It.' People Became Hypocritical, Cunning, Mistrustful, Cynical, Silent, Cruel, And Indifferent To The Fate Of Others As A Result Of The Destruction Of Their Own Souls.

In Claiming That Prohibition, Not The Drugs Themselves, Is The Problem, Nadelmann And Many Others - Even Policemen - Have Said That "the War On Drugs Is Lost." But To Demand A Yes Or No Answer To The Question "is The War Against Drugs Being Won?" Is Like Demanding A Yes Or No Answer To The Question "have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?" Never Can An Unimaginative And Fundamentally Stupid Metaphor Have Exerted A More Baleful Effect Upon Proper Thought.

A Curious Reversal In The Locus Of Moral Concern Has Taken Place: People Feel Responsible For Everything Except For What They Do.

There Is Nothing An Addict Likes More, Or That Serves As Better Pretext For Continuing His Present Way Of Life, Than To Place The Weight Of Responsibility For His Situation Somewhere Other Than On His Own Decisions.