#narcotic

I've been using narcotics for 20 years. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#i #narcotics #using #years

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #european #great #narcotics #two

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#band #chase #check #ended #ever

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#narcotic #war #love

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#crime #enforcement #forces #last #law

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#even #fatal #hospital #inevitably #infinitely

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#narcotics #self-esteem #self-pity #self-esteem

The simple fact is that the drug cartels are coming in through Arizona. Arizona is the gateway for all the narcotics and the crime that is connected with it. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#coming #connected #crime #fact #gateway