Billie Holiday Quotes

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

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

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Marijuana doesn’t produce dependence and it doesn’t produce overdose deaths.

Asking South American peasants to stop growing coca is like asking the Scots to stop growing barley because people on the other side of the world could not hold their drink.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

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.

Your Majesty has not before been thus officially notified, and you may plead ignorance of the severity of our laws, but I now give my assurance that we mean to cut this harmful drug forever.

I know of nothing you can sell where you can make a greater profit than drugs—if you survive.

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

I hear that opium smoking is strictly banned in England, and so England knows the harm that the drug does. If it does not allow it to poison its own people, it should not allow it to poison the people of other countries.

People are slaves to a plant! Cocoa, cocaine, the coca plant—people are hooked on a vegetable!

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

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

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value 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

The Drug War has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.

We are very grateful for what Western society has brought us ... but we owe you no gratitude for the traffic of cocaine which is a foreign enterprise ... this problem is the responsibility of the consumer countries rather than the producing countries.

We know the war on drugs will not be won in Washington DC When the United States of America decides it wants to do something and the people pull together, amazing things can be done.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.

The Drug War is probably the worst scourge that has ever been visited upon this country.

Drugs come to America, not by invasion, but by invitation.

The real drug "kingpin" is the user. It is the casual users who create the profits. But we can't put them all in prison; there isn't any room in the jails.