Jose Mujica 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.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

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

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

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

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

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.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

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.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.

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.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.