Quotes About Freedom

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

You need to stop thinking "I can never ever have another drink", and start thinking how wonderful it will be when you can stop poisoning yourself.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

your pleasure, and that you can't live without it. When the nicotine level in your body falls, the Little Nicotine Monster triggers a pang around the stomach area which the Big Monster interprets as: "I want a cigarette." This is the nicotine trap—the ingenious way that cigarettes turn smokers into slaves. Each cigarette causes the craving for the next, to fill the emptiness caused by the nicotine leaving your body. And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

If you were in control of your smoking, you wouldn't be reading this book. If you could simply choose whether to smoke or not, you would choose to be a nonsmoker.

Client: "Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?" Me: "Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic." Client: "Why on earth would I want you to do that?" Me: "Exactly!

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Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

Skydivers are people who enjoy falling down.

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: "You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility.

We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse someone's actions, but it releases us from the pain they caused.

My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.

We don't owe nobody nuthin', and we don't make no deals, we're swingin' chicks on motors, and we're man-eaters on wheels!

When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship—it all collapsed.