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Drugs Quotes
Drugs Quotes
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60’s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously… All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody… or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Of course Behaviorism ‘works.’ So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth Behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian creed in public.
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973). English poet. A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
- Chick Corea
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
- Milton Friedman(1912- ) US economist
People call me an optimist, but I’m really an appreciator… When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I’m grateful for computers and photocopiers…I appreciate where we’ve come from.
- Julian Simon
