Addiction Quotes

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

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.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

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

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.'

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

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

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

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

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

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?'

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

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

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.

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.