Helen Caldicott Quotes

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

I think all politicians lie.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Suspect power more than vice.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

[Allen Dulles] was not above misleading Congress or his colleagues or even his commander in chief.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it into lies. And the child is helpless. He cannot escape his parents, he is utterly dependent. You can exploit his dependence...and it has been exploited down the ages.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

There is nothing the political establishment will not do - no lie that they won't tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's been happening.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.