“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.” IfsSpiritStrongSocialFeltLosesLossSpaceExistenceDrinkEssentialsAnxietyExtremesProtectionAlcoholOccasionsExceptionVery StrongProvokingJacketsOrientationStrong SpiritBalinese Book:Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis
“Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.” MenDoeSpiritGrowsMankindDrinkDemandAlcoholBeerAlcoholicsGrapesVineyardsAlcoholic DrinksBreweries Author:Ludwig von Mises
“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.” WayLongSoulCharacterSeemsAbleSpiritBrainKnownMoralClassRemainsPossessionAlcoholFoolishContactInsaneSubstanceMarvelousTransformingEntrances Author:Timothy Shay Arthur
“Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.” GivingSpiritFireWineAlcoholHeat Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.” ShouldCountryAgeSpiritShareRevolutionDrinkAlcoholListsOur CountryRevolutionaryMeritRemarkableArdent Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison