12-step-program Quote by Lance Dodes

“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction. If moral…

— Lance Dodes

“We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the…

— Noah Levine

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

“The truth is, we do not have addiction problems. We have misdirected worship. I’m convinced every human being is in recovery and being weaned…

— Derwin L. Gray

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can…

— Aldous Huxley

“If complex behavior such as addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease (and it is complex, because it involves not just taking the…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand…

— Will Self

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

— W. H. Auden

I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but…

— Rob Ford

“It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“WHEN GOD IS A DRUG—RELIGIOUS ADDICTION Mood alteration is an ingredient of compulsive/addictive behavior. Addiction has been described as “a pathological relationship to any…

— John Bradshaw

“Many people are too quick to trust someone in the name of forgiveness and not make sure that the other is producing “fruit in…

— Henry Cloud