Addiction Quotes

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

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

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.

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

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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.