Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

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

No addiction is good.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

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.

Slot machine revenue may briefly fatten the State’s bottom line, but slots do this by hurting the local economy…. Choking traffic, violent crime, and petty larceny always follow wherever gambling has been implemented.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves.

[Federal deficits] are like an athlete taking steroids. You get a short term boost and long term damage.

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

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

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.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.