addiction

quote: I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

quote: The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

quote: We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

quote: All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

quote: In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

quote: I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your
drug addiction?

quote: To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.

quote: All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

quote: I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?

quote: We are open to the investigation. We have the same objective of eradicating drug addiction in the city.

quote: Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

quote: The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den

quote: I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,

quote: Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

quote: But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

quote: If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

quote: I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

quote: Going from Middle Eastern oil to coal and nukes to solve our addiction is like going from one hard-core drug to another.

quote: We wanted to save this next generation from the horrible addiction to tobacco and we put a program into place to do exactly that, ... Now we're making huge cuts to that. It's not a good message at all.

quote: I think our addiction to war is nurture rather than nature. We learn to hate, learn to want more, learn to kill. It's what we teach our kids everyday on TV, in the movies, on video games, etc. We mythologize war and conceal its horror. We have managed a scenario in which we have disinfranchised segments of our population, women and gays, demanding equal rights to become victims and killers on the battlefield

quote: There are very few programs treating this type of addiction. There is nothing.

quote: MySpace is an addiction.

quote: I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

quote: I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

quote: No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

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