Drug Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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• Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Marijuana, Lost

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• Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

  Andres Oppenheimer

  War, Marijuana, Four

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• "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."

  John Hickenlooper

  War, Kids, Marijuana

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

  Kurt Rambis

  Funny, Basketball, Multiple Choice

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• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  Gabor Mate

  Addiction, Relief, Behaviour

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.33, Knopf Canada

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• For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

  Carl Pfeiffer

  Health, Substance, Benefits

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• Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

  Mack Brown

  Football, Player, College

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• Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

  Bob Riley

  Ambition, Fighting, Enemy

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• Life`s a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don`t drug its feet, time moves faster than you think.

  Kip Moore

  Girl, Country, Moving

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• There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Marijuana, People, Different

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• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

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• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

  Albert Hofmann

  Character, Reality, Emotional

  "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

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• If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.

  William Wardell

  People, Liberty, Events

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