Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I don't drink these days. I am allegic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs. — Robert Downey Jr Copy Share Image
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something. — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
“The notion that some foods behave like narcotics goes back at least twenty years in scientific circles.” — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John W Gardner Copy Share Image
I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true.… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
![“For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.” quote by William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/william-s-burroughs-528_claims_for-instance-they-the-federal-narcotics_1760539.jpg)
![“I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on…” quote by Dennis Hopper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/dennis-hopper-8988_alcoholics_i-ve-been-sober-now-for-18-years-with-al_1517614.jpg)
![“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very…” quote by Maia Szalavitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/maia-szalavitz-21394_bases_i-know-that-sounds-really-extreme-but-if_2470423.jpg)
