Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. – Ralph Nader
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, Dad we need a third political party. He said to me, Ill settle for a second. – Ralph Nader
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader
Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979