Drug Quotes - Page 27

• There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Pain, Long

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 2, 1969.

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

  James Carriger Paine

  Libertarian Party, Alcohol, Liberty

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• I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body.

  Thomas Szasz

  Father, Men, Ideas

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• If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Law, Liberty

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• The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

  Dennis Hastert

  Organization, Liberty, Fuel

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• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

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• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Science, Simple

  A CertainWorld "Behaviorism" (1970)

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• A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

  Max Perutz

  Falling In Love, Nature, Science

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• My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Nature, Science, Medicine

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• Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say no.That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it.That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it.Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beer, Smoking, Trying

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• I'm not addicted to drugs, I'm addicted to glamour.

  James St. James

  Fashion, Glamour

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• I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Addiction, Hell, Rage

  "Celebs who've complained about dieting" By Olivia Allin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Drugs are a carnival in hell.

  Edith Piaf

  Addiction, Hell, Carnivals

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• If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Inspiration

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Powerful, Philosophy

  "Fictional character: Dr Malcolm Sayer". "Awakenings", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Rights, America

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.97, Multnomah

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• First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

  George W. Bush

  Suicide, Pain, Believe

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Deception

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• My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

  Columba Bush

  Daughter, Mother, Fighting

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• Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.

  T. S. Eliot

  Drinking, Gin, Dear

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• If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

  Joe Lieberman

  Pain, Thinking, Doctors

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• Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

  Mike Royko

  Pain, Gun, Law

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• I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness... The Constitution doesn't count!

  John Silber

  Giving Up, Believe, Gun

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• Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Home, Gun

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