Drug Quotes · Page 124

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

— Aaron Sorkin

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want…

— Jodi Picoult

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes…

— John Lennon

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I…

— Carl Hart

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

— Ethan Nadelmann

Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to…

— Michelle Alexander

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

— Rick James

I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize…

— Laurie Glimcher

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

— George Michael

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…

— Mike Tyson

I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that…

— Dennis McKenna

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the…

— Gabor Mate

If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.

— Behdad Sami

LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents.…

— Albert Hofmann

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how…

— Terence McKenna

I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and…

— Cara Santana

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school…

— Simone Elkeles

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

— Robin Williams

Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

— Bill Hicks

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

— William Gilbert

I say no to drugs, but they don't listen.

— Marilyn Manson