Addicts Quotes

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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to… — Michael Badnarik
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring… — William S. Burroughs
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,… — Eugene H. Peterson
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television… — Shirley Chisholm
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And… — Kurt Vonnegut
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a… — Pete Townshend
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing… — David Sedaris
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist. — Jeanne Moreau
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. — Cornelia Funke
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job… — Jeff Dunham
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...… — Milton Friedman
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history… — Chuck Palahniuk
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make… — Cornel West
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat. — Nina Simone

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