quotations about drugs
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.
JOHN LENNON
interview, ATV, Dec. 2, 1969
Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.
TIM ALLEN
Reader's Digest, Oct. 2001
All your dreams are made
When you're chained to the mirror and a razor blade.
OASIS
"Morning Glory"
Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTER
Address to Congress, Aug. 2, 1977
So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
LIBBY BRAY
Going Bovine
Drugs take away the dream from every child’s heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it’s time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
NANCY REAGAN
attributed, Reagan Foundation website
I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
NEIL YOUNG
"The Needle and the Damage Done"
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
JIMMY CARTER
Rolling Stone, May 3, 2007
The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.
CHERIE CURRIE
Neon Angel
You can turn back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug, especially when it's waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources 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
Give War a Chance
Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The Independent Review, Mar. 25, 2004
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.
NORMAN MAILER
Rolling Stone, May 3, 2007
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. Maybe he did.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
No Country for Old Men
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man
I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter on their hands
They fight a war but it's fatal, it's so hard to understand
I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man.
MEGADETH
"Use the Man"
Now it's one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
National Review, Dec. 8, 1997
All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.
WILLIAM GIBSON
No Maps for These Territories
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
JEREMY P. JOHNSON
attributed, Quotes about Drugs
Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
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