“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.” IfsUseEnergyCommunityNumbersColdDrugMembersSlaveAddictionPopulationPainfulActiveScalesAliensAlternativesMassiveTurkeysMaintainingKickingHookedCrampsKicking ItCold TurkeyMethadone Author:Ivan Illich
“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.” PeopleWantSpiritualEnergyRichDrugSpiritual Life Author:Shirley MacLaine
“If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.” IfsNeedsStatesWould BeAmericaValuesOpportunityEnergyUnitedUnited StatesDrugFinalsDesertExpensiveSandRetreatSaddamFarewellHusseinArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisHempCzarsDesert Sand Author:Hugh Downs
“Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.” FeelsEnergySexMeditationDrugLosingConservativeAlcoholMysticismControlledHow You FeelPastimeGuidelinesDoing MeLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.” IfsNeedsShouldEnergyDrugMusic Is Author:Paul van Dyk
“It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.” PeopleWayEnergyCreativeAmountDrugDirectorsDrinkingEnormousRejectedFrustratingCreative Energy Author:Matt Damon
“I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.” BelieveHardBodyNightEnergyHurtSpecialDrinkDrugYour BodySmokeOccasionsBeerWeedSmoke WeedSpecial Occasion Author:Christofer Drew
“I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.” ThinkingEndsEvilEnergyWonderDrugFantasticAwakeMarvelousCocaine Author:George Jung
“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.” PeopleThinkingUseEnergyStuffForgetDrugPressureHeavyReactionsPerformingReverseCocaineNumbNothing New Author:Robin Williams
“Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.” PeopleFormEnergySexShareDrugMusic IsReleasePrimalHaving SexLive Music Author:Kurt Cobain
“The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.” BigsEnergySexFocusViolenceDrugLifestyleOpeningWithout LoveTentsIntimidationRecyclingOpening UpSex Without Love Author:Jesse Jackson
“I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.” IfsHelpingEnergyLevelsAmountDrugAnxietyWork OutBordersHelp MeFurnitureColliesHigh Anxiety Author:Jake Abel
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.” IfsKindRealUseOrderFallEnergyGoalCan DoSituationFocusGraceCrazyLandBuildingDrugLuckIncrediblesDesertGet BetterPullingAddictTruckPillowDopeGet MoneySomething RealResourcefulness Author:Bucky Sinister
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates
“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.” HumansWisdomEnergyGrowsHuman BeingsEmotionGrowing UpMagicEmotionalCitizensDrugDirectResponsibleIntentionManageMaturePillsEmotional Energy Author:Doc Childre
“I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.” IdeasWantedRememberEnergyRocksDrugOriginalsRhythmRevolutionaryGet BackRock And RollGlamourMergingRevolutionary IdeasLimousines Author:Patti Smith
“I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.” KindEnergyDrugComplicatedObsessiveOcd Author:Alison Bechdel
“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.” PeopleIfsTodayTurnsGamesEnergyProcessAdviceDrugNervousTunesOrgansTurn-onHippieNervous SystemNowhere To GoFeudalismDropping Out Author:Timothy Leary
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” PeopleMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalReligionEnergyDifficultUnderstandingCommunityEnvironmentSocietyDependsDrugDifficultyClimate ChangeIntelligenceDependentGovernorsDependenceSalaryMiscellaneousInconvenientNever UnderestimateBest InvestmentDrug ProhibitionInconvenient TruthStupidity And IntelligenceLacking Something Author:Upton Sinclair
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.” MenMatterPhilosophyDreamHumorTodayFunnyYoungLife IsUniverseEnergyImaginationConsciousnessComedyMediaHumourDrugWittyWeatherYoung ManLife And DeathTomsVibrationsAcidPsychedelicLife DeathLsdPsychedelic ExperienceStream Of ConsciousnessHallucinogensWeathermenMatter And EnergyTrippy Author:Bill Hicks
“I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsWellsSometimesTodayAbleEnergyLevelsPeriodsDrugIllnessMoodMental IllnessMedicationHigh LevelVery SadQuicknessToday Life Author:Russell Brand