Drugs Quotes

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

I’ve never been drunk in my life. I don’t use recreational drugs.

Kill the body and the head will die.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experience either one.

We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway

People are strange . . .

Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred . . .We can’t escape from God.

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.