Top 100 On Drugs Quotes
#1. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
#2. The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
David Hockney
#3. Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.
Tommy Chong
#4. Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.
Ralph Metzner
#5. Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
Terry Pratchett
#6. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
Drew Barrymore
#7. If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
Harry Browne
#8. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
Beatrice Sparks
#9. So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
Libba Bray
#10. I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.
Harvey Pekar
#11. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
Prince Charles
#12. Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods.
Michelle Alexander
#13. As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.
Natasha Lyonne
#14. The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
L. Neil Smith
#15. There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
William S. Burroughs
#16. No. This has to do with drugs."
My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?"
She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are."
"I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.
Darynda Jones
#17. Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work ...
Frank Zappa
#18. If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.
Daniel Radcliffe
#19. We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.
Cornel West
#20. Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you don't need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on drugs to get that sensation.
Christopher Bollen
#21. Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.
Stefan Petrucha
#22. I was an angel in heaven for two days or at least I thought I was. Really I was whacked out on drugs and in ICU.
Kristen Ashley
#23. I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
Katherine Moennig
#24. Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.
Sinead O'Connor
#26. I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
David Harsanyi
#27. I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.
Roseanne Barr
#28. My brain fizzles. The 'this is your brain on drugs' warning, should also issue a 'this is your brain when Jackson Reid looks at you like that,' warning.
Ashley Jade
#29. I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.
Robin Williams
#30. I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.
Pablo Francisco
#31. Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American war on words. When you forbid a word, you give it power. Self-proclaimed rebels will use words like shit or fuck, simply to shock and sound cool.
Oliver Markus
#32. America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.
Robert Reich
#33. You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
Graham Hancock
#34. 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.
Beatrice Sparks
#35. Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Tony Hillerman
#36. Devastation wrought by crack cocaine and the drug war, and the odd coincidence that an illegal drug crisis suddenly appeared in the black community after - not before - a drug war had been declared. In fact, the War on Drugs began at a time when illegal drug use was on the decline.
Michelle Alexander
#37. As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
Bobby Vinton
#38. What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.
Pat Condell
#39. The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world
Kofi Annan
#40. Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
Amy Poehler
#41. The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.
Stefan Molyneux
#42. I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.
Will Self
#43. I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.'
You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
Bill Hicks
#44. Everyone has a golden. It could be anything - a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your insides cry of pure joy. It feels like you're on drugs but better because it's a natural high. Shakespeare is my golden.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#45. Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.
Amber Heard
#47. Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room.
"Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?"
"I'm on drugs," Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing.
Rainbow Rowell
#48. But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be won. Feeling good will never go out of style.
Ryan Vanderford
#49. Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.
Evo Morales
#50. Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce.
Don Winslow
#51. The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
Holly Near
#52. Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.
Dale Peck
#53. If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.
Stefan Molyneux
#54. The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
Rhys Ifans
#55. Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
#56. Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.
Moses Malone
#57. When you ask people, "What's America's longest war?" they usually answer "Vietnam" or amend that to "Afghanistan," but it's neither. America's longest war is the war on drugs.
Don Winslow
#58. I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.
Don Winslow
#59. More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.
Mira Sorvino
#60. I regret my El Chapo interview didn't spark debate about the war on drugs.
Sean Penn
#61. So who's on drugs here? ... HE looks as if he's on drugs.
Prince Philip
#62. We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
Ethan Nadelmann
#64. We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
Bill Hicks
#65. For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman
#66. I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
Boris Johnson
#67. Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs ...
Gary Johnson
#68. In the War on Drugs, shoot heroin first.
Eric Beeny
#70. Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.
Frederick Lenz
#71. It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
Bill Hicks
#72. I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed
Pamela Alexander
#73. What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
Eugene Jarecki
#74. Being in love has the same effect as being on drugs.
Natalie Ansard
#75. I've had good times on drugs ... bad times on drugs ... But I've had good and bad relationships ... and I'm not giving up pussy.
Bill Hicks
#76. That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
Tess Gerritsen
#77. A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was like a waiting room where they kept not calling your name.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#78. Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.
Kofi Annan
#79. In 1982 President Ronald Reagan called for a war on drugs: by 1990 more men were in federal prisons on drug charges alone than had comprised the entire 1980 federal prison population for all crimes combined.
Laurie Garrett
#80. The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.
Evo Morales
#81. Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.
Gene Simmons
#82. Instead of war on poverty,
they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.
Tupac Shakur
#83. You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.
Boy George
#84. Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
Michelle Alexander
#85. Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs ... '
Moby
#86. War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?
David W. Earle
#87. Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
#88. Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.
Fiona Apple
#89. I need to be on drugs to connect with nature.
Larry David
#90. The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug - and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.
Johann Hari
#91. Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite ... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?
Eddie Izzard
#92. I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
Noel Fielding
#93. The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.
Steven Machat
#94. It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.
Marc Maron
#95. The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.
George Jung
#96. This is not a war on drugs. This is a war on the poor. This is a war on the poor and the powerless, the voiceless and the invisible,
Don Winslow
#97. I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#98. I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Jerry Garcia
#99. Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.
Leon Chaitow
#100. New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson, a Republican and tri-athlete, has stated publicly that "Our present course is not working. Our War on Drugs is a real failure.
James P. Gray
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