“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
“Genetically modified foods and chemical drugs. Two things that will change our consciousness as we become slaves to the world we made, not what the Divine gave us to live in this place and space called earth.” WorldMadeTwoEarthSpaceConsciousnessDivineDrugSlaveTwo ThingsChemicalsGenetically ModifiedGenetically Modified Food Author:Steven Machat
“He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.” MenKindLittlesSelfBodyRunningLosesMastersBecomingDrugDoctorsSlaveCeaseAll KindsVegetablesSelf ControlBe A ManMineralsAilments Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?” EndsUseNationsDrugApproachMassMental HealthSlaveFinalsGenderCompassionateGender EqualityPublic HealthProliferationIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationHealth System Author:Ayelet Waldman
“We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in our country's history. Then after that, we had Jim Crow emerge and just when the Jim Crow laws were ending came the onslaught of the drug war. Well, the drug war has so perniciously effected, insidiously infected communities of color that in some ways it has come full circle, and we now have more African Americans under criminal supervision than all of the slaves in 1865. This is a profoundly unjust war.” WarCommunitySinDrugSlaverySlaveTerrorismAfrican AmericanCrowWar On DrugsJim CrowSupervision Author:Cory Booker