Quotes on Addiction
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Author: Shirley Chisholm 1924-, American Social activist
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Author: Peter McWilliams
Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.
Author: Anonymous
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite is irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
Author: Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Author: Clarence Day
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come are selling this deadly stuff anyway?
Author: Anna Quindlen
Author: Shirley Chisholm 1924-, American Social activist
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Author: Peter McWilliams
Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.
Author: Anonymous
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite is irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
Author: Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Author: Clarence Day
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come are selling this deadly stuff anyway?
Author: Anna Quindlen
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