“I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.” UseSexDifferencesNew YorkDrugJokesFunctionDrug UseBodily Functions Author:David Letterman
“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.” IfsWarNamesSocialClassDrugRacismFunctionWar On DrugsSocial Control Author:David Simon
“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.” GivingSocialChurchPleasureDrugBandConcernedRootsFunctionDancingHallsConcertsMarching Band Author:Oliver Sacks
“The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.” HumansWellsCountryReasonTodayPastBrainDrugFunctionFundamentalsSouthRelatedContinentsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsCerebral Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.” DrugMajorsFunctionPlantSurrenderSubmitPsychedelicHumblingObtainingPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.” IfsThinkingIdeasShowsJobsCultureBlackWaterClassDrugMassFunctionMinoritiesGood IdeasDrug Taking Author:Terence McKenna
“Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.” CommunityPovertyViolenceDrugFunctionAfrican AmericanJoblessnessAvailability Author:Julianne Malveaux
“If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.” PeopleIfsCountryHomeMightWould BeAbleYoungDifficultCareersEconomyDrugDoctorsFunctionHospitalsCollapseEquipment Author:Chinua Achebe
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsGivingRealStatesFeelingsProblemDreamSpaceLove IsFantasySecurityEmotionalDrugCommitmentFunctionSolveStuckGenuineBlissInsightfulSteadyGood FeelingUnderminingReal PowerGenuine Love Author:Bell Hooks