Drug Quotes

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  A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  Patricia Neal

  Motivational, Positive, Strong

  "Patricia Neal obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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  Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

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• Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

  Vince Staples

  Done, Say No To Drugs, Horrible

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Special

  "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, Grove Press, (p. 201), 1959.

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• It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Personal Freedom, War On Drugs

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• I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Hipster, Epic

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• I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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  Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

  Danny Sugerman

  Black, Criminals, Pay

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• Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

  Thomas de Quincey

  Keys, Paradise, Subtle

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Hunting, Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage

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• We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Attitude, War, Epidemics

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• I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

  Dave Barry

  God, Ice, Stupidity

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• 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

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Drinking, Beer, Addiction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

  Bill McCollum

  Law, Enforcement, Problem

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• The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Dog, Lying

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

  Willie Nelson

  Weed, Flower, Marijuana

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• If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

  Courtney Love

  Daughter, Mother, Smart

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• It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

  Jean Cocteau

  Knowing, Saint, Earth

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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