Martin Scorsese Quotes

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

Our poor children are suffering every day for want of necessities of life…All this is for the love of strong drink.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

The benefit of drinking alcohol is very minimal and the harm of it is as bad as what a knife can do.