“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsFeelsChildrenLongDifferentCountryReasonPlayUseProblemCareWantedSchoolJobsCultureForceFeltMankindDrugEmptyOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenMore MoneyFeel BetterSymptomsBetter JobsDegradingNeonSewersUterus Author:George Carlin
“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLittlesLongDifferentSometimesReasonAsksPoorDrugEmptyThirdsPlantPeasantsWrong ThingsThird WorldWrong Reasons Author:George Carlin
“I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.” MenChildrenTermDrugEmptyDancingLegsSmellStores Author:Marilyn Manson
“You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.” ThinkingSchoolDrugBehaviorEmptyRapper Author:Carl Hart
“How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.” PeopleYoungLeftGroupsDrugEuropeIdealsEmptyAlcoholFundamentalist Author:Pope Francis