Quotations: Drugs

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.
Judie Brown

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
E. Jean Carroll

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
Geraldine Chaplin

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
Margaret Cho

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Norman Cousins

I don't do drugs: I am drugs.
Salvador Dali

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Dr. Martin Fischer

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
Martin Fischer

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
Abbie Hoffman

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee

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 . . .
John Lennon

Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening to that record anyway.
Bill Maher

If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
Nicolas Martin

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.
Moliere

Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison

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.
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
Philipus Paracelsus

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.
Gene Roddenberry

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Leo Rosten

To be honest I think the British are much better at doing drugs and drinking than Americans. Americans are all soft when it comes to taking drugs. The English can really do it.
Mike Skinner

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter Thompson

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
Lily Tomlin

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