“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.” PeopleIfsHumansMayImportantGovernmentIndividualHuman BeingsMistakeFailingGroupsCostDrugSucceedMessTriumphDestructiveProtected Author:L. Neil Smith
“If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.” IfsHumansWarFormLiteratureIndividualHuman BeingsSupportDrugConceptsLipsDefenseSovereignWar On DrugsLip Service Author:Neal Boortz
“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.” PeopleWantYearsHumansKindHas BeensUseSeemsHuman BeingsTakenDrugYears AgoAlcoholAll KindsMarijuanaTobaccoPropensity Author:Mick Jagger
“The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.” ThinkingKnowsHumansRealJobsArtistSpiritualityHuman BeingsCrazyDrugAddExtrasMystical Author:Chris Martin
“So, whenever you hear or see violence, there is violence on both sides of the border, or it's both country's responsibility. When we talk about trafficking with weapons, with human beings or with drugs, we talk about it on both sides of the border.” HumansCountrySidesHuman BeingsResponsibilityViolenceDrugWeaponsBordersBoth SidesTrafficking Author:Demian Bichir
“Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.” PeopleNeedsHumansMayUseSpiritualMovingHuman BeingsPathDrugTechniquePsychoactive Drugs Author:Andrew Weil
“Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.” HumansHandsHuman BeingsDrugLaysAlcohol Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.” HumansHouseLostHuman BeingsDrugConscienceDrinkingQuittingStealingI QuitLater In LifeLost TimeQuit Drinking Author:James Ellroy
“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
“Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.” WayFeelsYearsHumansWholeCharacterBodyFeltHuman BeingsFivePlanetsDrugWhole LifeMy WayFive YearsFiftyTrappedOutsidersInfantApesDualityFive Year Olds Author:Andy Serkis
“I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.” GivingHumansSometimesHandsCareBeautifulHuman BeingsAbilityLove IsHellDangerousSelf LoveDrugAdultsBlindForgivingBeautiful ThingsDangerous ThingsCare For You Author:Trevor Noah
“LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.” IfsShouldHumansKindDifferentPainHuman BeingsConsciousnessDrugEssenceSacredTreatedAgentsPreparationSubstanceDifferent KindsCorrespondingLsd Author:Albert Hofmann