Quotes About Alcoholics Anonymous

The organization called Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job in trying to rehabilitate some of these men.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

According to [Jerome] Levin, Alcoholics Anonymous describes the geographic cure as 'physically running away from one's problems without ever facing them, without ever relinquishing denial and getting help for one's addiction.' This sounds like precisely what Bill Clinton is up to.

This milestone was the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, in June of 1935.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

But the real problem was that the treatment was based around the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step programme, and as soon as my counsellor started talking to me about God, I flipped out. I didn't want to know about religion: religion was dogma, it was bigotry, it was the Moral Majority and people like Jerry Falwell saying that AIDS was God's judgement on homosexuals

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

The results of a 1995 study conducted by Harvard Medical School indicated that alcoholics have a better chance of quitting drinking if they don't attend AA than if they do. Americans seldom hear about such results, in part because AA and its sister organizations have actively opposed independent research that could test their programs' effectiveness.

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, "GOD***N, YA SONOFABITCH!" and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar.

When several years ago an NYU colleague mentioned to Ross that LSD had once been used to treat thousands of alcoholics in Canada and the United States (and that Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, had sought to introduce LSD therapy into AA in the 1950s), Ross, who was in his thirties at the time, did some research and was "flabbergasted" by all that he—as an expert on the treatment of alcoholism—did not know and hadn't been told.

What might be considered irrational, abnormal, aberrant, ludicrous, illogical, bizarre, schizoid, or schizophrenic to earth people (which is what AAs call nonalcoholics) is usually considered fairly normal by AA members.

You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.' 'I didn't know you were in the program.' 'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

People help themselves by trying to help others, and this is the process that helps alcoholics get sober and stay that way. Love and tolerance of others, as stated on page 84 of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the "code" of living that is suggested to AA members.