“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
“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.” FeelsTryingSelfRealityWantedMemoriesSadnessGoes OnDrugStressAlcoholListsThank GodMonkeysLiquorNumbHooked Author:Johnny Depp
“Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.” DrugMassiveAdolescenceDoseHookedNovicesExhibitionism Author:Quentin Crisp
“When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.” IfsThinkingStillsDrugBandHookedGetting HighNarcotics Author:Bert McCracken
“Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.” PoliticianDrugVotersHooked Author:Richard J. Needham
“The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.” ThinkingHappensKidsVoiceDrugAlcoholHandleOccultHookedChorus Book:Jay's Journal Source: Jay's Journal
“Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanKidsDrugAddictionRedemptionGet OverVersusMaking ChangesHookedRehab Author:Ice T
“Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.” FirstsSexShareGrewDrugGrew UpImageryPsychedelicHookedAnatomyFireworks Author:Peter Blegvad