Drugs quotes

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◆ I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

- Edgar Allan Poe100

◆ Don't do drugs kids. There's a time and place for everything. It's called college.

- South Park100

◆ I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

- Hunter S Thompson99

◆ I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

- Maynard James Keenan99

◆ Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with

- George Carlin99

◆ We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa, people not on drugs were behind the curve. The fact is that, in terms of human evolution, people not on psychedelics are not fully human. They've fallen to a lower state, where they're easily programmed, boundary defined, obsessed by sexual possessiveness which is transferred into fetishism and object obsession. We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting. "Take your political party, your job, whatever, and shove it."

- Terence Smith99

◆ It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-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 McCartney99

◆ I don't need drugs to make my life tragic

- Eddie Vedder99

◆ I only get ill when I give up drugs

- Keith Richards99

◆ Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

- Bob Marley99

◆ I think religion is bad and drugs are good.

- Bill Maher99

◆ Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and supported. We, as physicians, should not be moralizing about pain or its treatments.

- Dan Brookoff99

◆ Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

- Jean Cocteau99

◆ Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

- Kurt Cobain99

◆ Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

- Angel Cordero Jr99