Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
—Martin H. Fischer
I don’t respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to… if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
—Robin Williams (1951–2014) American Actor, Comedian, Voice Artist
It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
—Anne Wilson Schaef (1934–2020) American Clinical Psychologist
Junk is the ideal product… the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
—William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
—Bob Marley (1945–81) Jamaican Musician, Singer, Songwriter
I think religion is bad and drugs are good.
—Bill Maher (b.1956) American Comedian, TV Host, Commentator
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
jiggling your knees blankly in the rain.
When it snows in your nose
you catch cold in your brain.
—Allen Ginsberg (1926–97) American Poet, Activist
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
—M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch Graphic Artist
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
—Billie Holiday (1915–59) American Jazz Singer
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source 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 (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
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 (1947–2022) American Journalist, Political Satirist
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
—Ask Ann Landers (1918–2002) American Advice Columnist
Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.
—Robin Williams (1951–2014) American Actor, Comedian, Voice Artist
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake’s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet’s oceanic horizon. No harm.
—Allen Ginsberg (1926–97) American Poet, Activist
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
—Billie Holiday (1915–59) American Jazz Singer
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French Actor, Drama Theorist
Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.
—Gerhard Kocher (b.1939) Swiss Publicist, Aphorist
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are eak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
—Martin H. Fischer
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
—Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) English Essayist, Critic
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
—Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow’s misdeeds out of yesterday’s miscreeds?
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
—John Lennon (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
—Salvador Dali (1904–89) Spanish Painter
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
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