Drug Quotes - Page 33

• Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  War, Worship, Expenses

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• There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Intellectual, Needs

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• The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

  Will Durant

  Strong, War, Mean

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Future, Experience

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.50, Library of America

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• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Tommy Rettig

  Real, Lying, Government

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• The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

  John Lennon

  Art, School, Together

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• In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Night, Sober Up

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• This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.

  Ringo Starr

  Beer, Long, Pills

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• They were actually pills to make slimming easier for you. We used to take them with a couple of beers. They made you just a little speedy. But you can't compare it to speed from today or cocaine or anything. It's just baby food compared to that.

  Astrid Kirchherr

  Baby, Couple, Beer

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• We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Party, Men

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• We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.

  Bob Wooler

  Strong, Heart, Mean

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• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  John Lennon

  Eye, Marijuana, Smoking

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• He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.

  John Lennon

  Party, Coffee, Class

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• It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years.

  George Harrison

  Crazy, Home, Safe And Sound

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• John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest of the night as the walls moved, the plants talked, other people looked like ghouls and time stood still. It was horrific: I hated the lack of control and not knowing what was going on or what would happen next.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Wall, Night, Ghouls

  Cynthia Lennon (2005). “John”, Crown Pub

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• I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

  Paul McCartney

  Crazy, Thinking, Sgt Pepper

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• I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

  John Lennon

  Dumb, Goes On, Next

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

  Paul McCartney

  Taken, Lucky, Realizing

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• Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

  Yoko Ono

  Connections, Scared, Very Good

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• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

  Peter Singer

  Sports, Athlete, Drug Use

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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• Though it's thousands of miles away
  Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
  Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
  Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

  Kanye West

  Song, Sierra Leone, Today

  Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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• I don't take drugs, I take books.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Book, Reading, Book Reading

  Ingeborg Bachmann (1990). “Malina: A Novel”, Holmes & Meier Pub

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• I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Salesman

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.153, Dial Press

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• Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered.

  Andy Gray

  Football, Should, Hammered

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• For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

  Heinrich Fraenkel

  World, Chess

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