Drug Quotes

The best mind-altering drug is the truth. (Lily Tomlin)
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. View quote
Salvador Dalí
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. View quote
Emil Cioran
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. View quote
Douglas Adams
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. View quote
Milton Friedman
Anyway, 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. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. (Cecil B. DeMille)
Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable. View quote
Cyril Connolly
There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. View quote
George Farquhar
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. View quote
Paul Reiser
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? View quote
Clifford Stoll
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. (Bill Shuster)
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. View quote
Bobby Scott
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. View quote
Paul Gillmor
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot. View quote
R. Lee Ermey