Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.

Our poor children are suffering every day for want of necessities of life…All this is for the love of strong drink.

Who maintains the pubs and makes the peasants drunk? The peasant. Who embezzles the village, school, and parish funds and spends it all on drink? The peasant. Who robs his neighbor, sets fire to his house, and perjures himself in court for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.

Liquor will actually make a brute out of a Negro, causing him to commit unnatural crimes. The effect is the same on the white man, though the white man being further evolved it takes a longer time to reduce him to the same level.

We fully understand that even in our own lands we’re now a minority, but that doesn’t in any way mean we should rescind our efforts to deal with the pain of alcohol abuse in those lands.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Ye Dutch, Swede, and English have by Brandy and Specially Rum, almost Debaucht ye Indians all.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying on the DA's office and the jails to deal with. That's really expensive, inhumane and ineffective.

Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

Everyone feels like they would love to be a really cool bartender in a really cool bar, but you're still surrounded by people who want to destroy themselves with alcohol. When you look at it that way, it's not that much fun.