Anslinger's 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. (Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)

Cherie Priest

#3. 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

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

Harry J. Anslinger

#5. I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

John Fredriksen

#6. Write a daily gratitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Harry J. Anslinger

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

Harry J. Anslinger

#9. Every new friend, in your life is 1% success.

Deyth Banger

#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. It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.

Albert Memmi

#12. Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

David Addington

#13. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

C.P. Scott

#14. I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blair

#15. Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

Harry J. Anslinger

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

Harry J. Anslinger

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

Harry J. Anslinger

#18. Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.

Clarence Munn

#19. If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

Keely Barton

#20. 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

#21. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#22. Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

John Lubbock

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

Harry J. Anslinger

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

Harry J. Anslinger