Anslinger Quotes

#1. Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

#2. When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

Esther Hicks

#3. The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Jean De La Fontaine

#4. Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

Harry J. Anslinger

#5. I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one, who claims he loves me.

David Hopper

#6. I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience.

Jake M. Johnson

#7. The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

Harry J. Anslinger

#8. Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

Harry J. Anslinger

#9. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

Harry J. Anslinger

#10. Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

Harry J. Anslinger

#11. I really want bubbies - I always have.

Sienna Miller

#12. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Harry J. Anslinger

#13. You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

Harry J. Anslinger

#14. If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.

Harry J. Anslinger

#15. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Harry J. Anslinger

#16. Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type ...

Harry J. Anslinger

#17. Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

Harry J. Anslinger

#18. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.

Charles Baudelaire