Addiction

(356 votes)   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.

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(236 votes)   Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones

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(192 votes)   I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Maynard James Keenan

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(192 votes)   There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Hunter S. Thompson

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(188 votes)   Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body.

Thomas Szasz

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(179 votes)   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 we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?

Anna Quindlen

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(178 votes)   If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.

Rob Stampfli

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(175 votes)   Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

St. Augustine

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(162 votes)   I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?

Ken Faver

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(154 votes)   Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

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(154 votes)   Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.

Anonymous

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(154 votes)   We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Bertrand Russell

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(150 votes)   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.

Peter McWilliams

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(140 votes)   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.

Jean Cocteau

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(140 votes)   Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stephen R. Covey

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