Drug Quotes - Page 29

• In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

  Aimee Mann

  Recovery, Thinking, People

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• I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition.

  CM Punk

  Wrestling, Wwe, Addiction

  WWE's "ECW on Sci-Fi/Syfy", July 4, 2006.

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• The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.

  Isidore of Seville

  Health, Names, Medicine

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• It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, War, Eye

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• I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Understanding, Police

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• The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Ideas, Hysteria

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• LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

  Timothy Leary

  Psychosis, People, Lsd

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• The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

  Timothy Leary

  Butterfly, Caterpillars

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

  Harry Browne

  War, Men, Years

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• That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

  Bill Hicks

  Facts, Psychedelic, Realizing

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• Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

  Claude Bernard

  Poison, Matter, Dose

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• Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Garden, Woods

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• A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

  Otto Loewi

  Science, Rabbits, Substance

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Important, Matter

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

  Richard Asher

  Hope, Science, Dope

  Lancet I: 954 (1958)

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• Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Mortimer Collins

  May, Disease, More Time

  The Village Comedy Vol. II

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• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, People, Tree

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• The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Museums, Medicine, Shops

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• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Overcoming, Pills, Ears

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• Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

  Frank Zappa

  Trying, Conversation

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• I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Use, Hendrix

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• But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

  Bob Dylan

  Smoking Weed, All Alone, Ganja

  Song: Rainy Day Women #12 and 35, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

  Jerry Garcia

  Men, Littles, Able

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• Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wine, Men, Taste

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• I watched the needle take another man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Needles, Another Man

  Song: The Needle and the Damage Done

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