Evo Morales Quotes

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

No religious education may be imparted without the consent of the Government.

Not since the collapse of the attempt to prohibit the ingestion of alcohol has our liberty been in such danger as it now is from the misnamed “war on drugs.”

This has been a clear mandate to Congress to end, as soon as possible, the tragic folly of federal prohibition.

You don't have to kill the economy to regulate it.

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink

Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it... The arguments against marijuana today are the same as the arguments against liquor years ago.

I hear that opium smoking is strictly banned in England, and so England knows the harm that the drug does. If it does not allow it to poison its own people, it should not allow it to poison the people of other countries.

State intervention in the literary realm went far beyond the blue-penciling of texts. It extended to the shaping of literature itself as a force at work throughout the social order. If states wielded such power in the age of print, what will restrain them from abusing it in the age of the Internet?

Anyone who advocates pill testing is giving the green light to drugs. That is absolutely unacceptable.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.