Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

This is not a prohibitive society. We're not going to tell people they can't smoke. We learned that we can't tell people they can't drink.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

I would be the last person to argue that people do not have the right, if they want to commit to spend part of their rent, for either alcohol or tobacco or entertainment, or anything else.

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.

We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the system - that we have to recognize mental illness as we do cancer or broken bones - and how we need to make it better.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.