Addiction Quotes

Auden, W.H.
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.


Jung, Carl
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.


Nietzsche, Friedrich
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


Quindlen, Anna
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?


Szasz, Thomas
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body.