“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.” MenArtGivenTechnologyGreaterViolenceHabitDrugProveExperimentsPlagueInitialsPsychSpecificationsIrritants Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.” WorldWayKindDifferentTodayGivenNationsEnvironmentModernConditionsMankindDrugDiseaseDegreesMajorsConcernConcernedYesterdayOur WorldDifferent KindsOrganismsPlagueOur EnvironmentHazardsScourgeCholeraSanitationSmallpoxInfectious DiseasesLiving Conditions Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Because I've been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I'm in an environment where people are drunk or on drugs, I certainly don't judge them. Because it's almost a given that for much of my life I've been way more messed up than them.” PeopleWayPersonsGivenEnvironmentJudgingDrugClubsDrunkMessed Up Author:Moby
“"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.” ThinkingHumansGivenGraceFrontsDrugNormalShameForgivingAddictAlcoholicsFooledDrug AddictDysfunction Author:Mark Ruffalo
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.” GivenLeaderInformationReadyDrugWeaponsMassResourcesDestructionCrisisWestDenyTerrorismAccessContraryHungryFrightenedAggressiveLackingTestedScenariosWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionChargingTraffickingAnti-americanPower HungryDrug Trafficking Author:Michael Parenti
“I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.” TryingLooksWould BeYoungGivenDrugAlcoholGladAwfulMonkeysPatheticGiven UpDrugs And AlcoholKeithArthritis Author:Elton John
“History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.” PeopleRealGivenStuffTasteDrugDestroyedOpiumReal Stuff Author:Auberon Waugh
“As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.” PeopleHas BeensTwoChoicesGivenBitsCompanyWeekIndustryDrugDevelopingLatterArticlesTwo WeeksNew YorkersPharmaceuticalAntibioticsAntidepressantsPharmaceutical IndustryDrug Companies Author:Bill Bryson
“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsEnoughUseKidsTurnsGivenChanceAbilityDecisionSupportDrinkDrugPreacherTalk To MeEnough LoveSoapbox Author:Nikki Sixx
“I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.” WantFeelsOpportunityGivenDrinkRight NowDrugMess Author:Anne Hathaway
“There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob” PeopleMenWorldWayGovernmentAgeLawHouseGivenReligiousDrugMen And WomenAtheistScaryRevolutionarySatanCommunistDictatorSecularHomosexualGreedyGodlyNew AgeDealerAssassinsJacobDrunkardsDrug DealersTop Of The WorldGodly Man Author:Pat Robertson
“Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.” LooksMadeWarGivenRecordsDrugStrategyDisasterBad ThingsElsewhereTacticsWar On DrugsFeatsCredibleColombiaVenezuela Author:Rory Carroll
“People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsWould BeGivenMediaBabyDrugNewsHungerMentalityFeedingPining Author:Patti Smith
“I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.” ReasonGivenHugeDrugDiagnosisPrescriptionsPsychotherapyPrescription Drugs Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne.” KindStillsDreamUsedChoicesGivenDrugHusbandSittingDown AndUsed To BeDietsMy HusbandSaltChampagneSitting DownVodkaCaviar Author:Iris Apfel
“I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fact, I couldn't believe any drug information that was given to me by authorities because I knew from my own experience that it was wrong.” BelieveFactsGivenMy OwnInformationDrugAuthorityWorkersAddictionDrivenCocaineHeroin Author:Maia Szalavitz
“I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.” TryingImportantBigsKidsLiteratureGivenAnimalIssuesEffectsDrugBehaviorExperimentsCuriousConferencesSpontaneityInstituteKnockingObsessiveStop TryingCagedSocializingCaged AnimalRitalinExperiments On Animals Author:Peter Breggin
“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.” IfsGivingChildrenTodaySchoolGivenHalfBoysPlansDrugTenTrainingPercentTwentiesOur ChildrenClintonHospitalsNurseSchool Nurse Author:Peter Breggin
“Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.” YearsWarHardTodayGivenDrugTenYears AgoInternationalMythAidsWar On DrugsPretextColombiaAmnestyAmnesty International Author:Noam Chomsky
“Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.” PeopleBelieveHardKidsGivenBlackStreetsMediaDrugStandingCornersPantsDealerDrug DealersStreet CornersSagging Author:Michelle Alexander
“What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.” PeopleWorldWayStatesGivenUnitedUnited StatesViolenceYouthDrugMessagesWeaponsTradeSellsCriticizeInvitesVisa Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.” WorldWellsStillsPlayUseProblemRunningThreeGamesGivenFunHoursIssuesToo MuchFootballDrugHollywoodPaidYeahCoachesHaving FunBest ThingsSundayBad ThingsGood LifeAmbitiousOwnershipQuarterbackPlaying FootballDrug UseRunning Back Author:Terry Crews
“That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.” ChildrenMotherGivenTakenDrugConcernAccountsTransmission Author:Thabo Mbeki
“We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.” ShouldAgeGivenSidesSuccessfulDrugBandPlaying MusicWeird ThingsBooze Author:Ville Valo
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.” PeopleKnowsWorldMomentsGivenThis WorldDrugLateWideHealToo LateRare Moments Book:Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories Source: Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories
“The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.” GivenSoundConsciousnessBloodDrugEdgesGentleOblivionHovering Author:Kim Harrison