Addiction Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

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.

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

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

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.