Donald Berwick Quotes

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

Let the king prohibit gambling and betting in his kingdom, for these are vices that destroy the kingdoms of princes.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

As a revenue raiser, gambling defies every principle. It’s regressive—it takes far more money out of poor people’s pockets than it does for higher income [people]. It’s cannibalistic—it eats other forms of revenue—when you have your citizens dumping $2 billion down the slots [slot machines], they’re not buying a car, and you lose that tax.

Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.

Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.

The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.