Billie Holiday Quotes

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you—and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

I'm very fond of drugs.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

Uncle Sam is the Worst Drug Fiend in the World Of all the nations of the world the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation.

Last year as many Marylanders died of drug overdoses as died of homicides and traffic deaths combined.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

It's hard to find someone who did as many drugs for as long and in such dangerous combinations as Nic - spending years going to Oakland and finding abandoned warehouses, getting beaten up, getting threatened by a guy with a crossbow. By all accounts, he shouldn't have made it, but he did.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.