Quotes About Psychoactive Drugs

#1. Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

William F. Buckley Jr.

#2. The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded ... [yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled ... increased nearly two and a half times.

Marcia Angell

#3. The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

Stuart Hameroff

#4. Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

William Sims

#5. Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with ... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences ... it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.

Huston Smith

#6. 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.

Andrew Weil

#7. We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Joseph Prince

#9. Today is a good day for war to end.

Deepak Chopra

#10. She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They're the loudest thing I've ever heard.

Beth Revis

#11. James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series as well as the Mortality Doctrine series, the 13th Reality series, and two books in the Infinity Ring series:

James Dashner

#12. It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

Deb Caletti

#13. A woman sees war differently.

Tatjana Soli

#14. The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

Leonard Sax