Quotes About Illicit Drugs

#1. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#2. Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

Thomas C. Foster

#4. I began to study marijuana in 1967 ... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.

Lester Grinspoon

#5. When you ban substances that people enjoy using so much that they'll break the law to do it, you create a black market with huge profits. And since purveyors of illicit drugs have no legal way to secure their investment, the trade will be run by increasingly violent criminals.

Anonymous

#6. In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use illicit drugs because they are illicit. They are thumbing their noses at society. If they were legal, they might not.

Noam Chomsky

#7. If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk ... " She eyed Jared speculatively

Sarah Rees Brennan

#8. I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.

Tammara Webber

#9. It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.

Murray Rothbard

#10. I agree," said Blazing Night. "I'm working on the formula to get the money from the rich folk and do it fast. It's not easy, do you know how?

J.M.K. Walkow

#11. Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

Kinky Friedman

#12. I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

Dick Dale

#13. The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

Robert Jordan

#14. Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

Francois Hollande

#15. Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Bill Gates

#16. So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Phillip E. Johnson

#17. Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

Stephen King