Addiction Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung

Bad, Alcohol, Matter

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Health, Country, Problem

MySpace is an addiction.
Paulo Coelho

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
Ken Hensley

Hard, Understand, Unless

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, Thoughts, Progress

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush

Heart, Seen, Terrible

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
Katherine Heigl

Life, Good, Stupid

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
Jim Ramstad

Time, Down, Suffering

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Values, Obvious

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor

Life, Family, Down

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden

Point, Sins, Addictive

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
Payne Stewart

Hard, Understand

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Gene Tierney

Anyone, Himself, Admire

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Ellen Burstyn

Feelings, Another, Her

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Keith Richards

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix

Success, Mind, Reason

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day

Health, Money, Bad

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen

Nature, Sports, Moral

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
John Mayer

Someone, Sober, Except

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Model, Mass

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
Janice Dickinson

Horrible, Former

This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West

America, Dark, Become

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
Steven Seagal

Life, Idiot, While

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John

Actually, Stubborn

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
Jim Ramstad

Time, Health, End

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert Trout

Before, Used, British

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

Once, Accepted, Secrecy

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
Lauryn Hill

Music, Good, Made

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
David Suzuki

Negative, Energy, Problems

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
David Suzuki

Control, Become, Place

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