#addiction

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. ↗

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

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. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#ferocious #i #lives #more #much

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

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#afflicts #ages #classes #immune #people

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.' ↗

— Steven Seagal

#back #danger #gee #had #i

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

#addiction #becomes #once #secrecy

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. ↗

— Keith Miller

#beneath #control #disease #mark #our

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