Narcotics Quotes - Page 4

• There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Men, Feet, Brain

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• Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Self Esteem, Self Pity, Destructive

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• "Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Drug, Type

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

  Robert Benchley

  Solitude, Next, Habit

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Suffering, Teeth

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Moral, Wells

  Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie (2006). “Lost girls”

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• I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Consciousness, Agree

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• The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Addiction, Doe

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Giving, Drug

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Ideas, Addiction, Black

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Storytelling has a narcotic power.

  Robert Harris

  Storytelling

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• On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Hands, Jail

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Years, Two

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• The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

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• When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

  Bert McCracken

  Thinking, Drug, Band

  "Meet Kelly Osbourne's Ex-Drug Addict Boyfriend". www.smh.com.au. February 19, 2003.

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• We do know that the Bandido gang in Houston does drug deal. There are a bunch of people being convicted for heavyweight narcotics trafficking from the gang.

  Bill O'Reilly

  People, Drug, Heavyweights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Race, Knees

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.218, Vintage

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• The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.

  Stephen Fry

  Alcohol, Energy, Guarantees

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Pain, Long, Expectations

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• Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are.

  Paul Martin

  Guy, Cash, Pharmacy

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• I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Pain, Thinking, Self

  "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Pain, Lying

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Powerful, Drawing, Brain

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