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Quotes About Narcotics

Mejor que se mataran entre ellos. La ley darwiniana aplicada a la lucha contra el narco. Que entre ellos limpiaran la basurita.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
José Antonio Zorrilla, director de la Federal de Seguridad, manda matar a Manuel Buendía, de quien se reputa amigo, para evitar que Buendía publique qué comandantes de la Federal de Seguridad protegen a los narcos.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
El Chayo, El Chango y La Tuta diseñan con singular astucia su separación de Los Zetas. A mediados de 2006 formalizan el nacimiento de una nueva organización llamada La Familia Michoacana, cuyo objetivo es expulsar a Los Zetas de la Tierra Caliente.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
When I closed my eyes, a lantern lit up the inside of my head, as if I had punched a hypodermic loaded with morphine into my arm.
~ James Lee Burke
There's always been narcotics. But people don't just up and decide to dope theirselves. By the millions.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Water is the usual drink, but everyone has wine, for no civilization has found life tolerable without narcotics or stimulants.
~ Will Durant
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.
~ Chris Hedges
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
~ Leonard Cohen
The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: Who is it? Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.
~ Jay McInerney
JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn't forget Dilaudid.
~ Tracy Letts
and oral narcotics addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction, and Gately is at this moment firmly in the need part of the schedule;
~ David Foster Wallace
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
~ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.
~ Joe Arpaio
Foreign Narcotics Operations Task Force in Dallas. A.k.a. the Cartel Busters.
~ Jeffery Deaver
heroin is diluted/cut before becoming a joey or bags.
~ Jeffrey Archer
By 1969, dancing was all but forbidden by rock bands who insisted that their audiences sit obediently and consume drugs en masse whilst trapped in enormous arenas, raceways, pastures, and superdomes. The rebellion of narcotics had the appeal of being hermetic, secretive, and illegal, but their real purpose was escape from rock itself, which had become intolerable.
~ Unknown
lulled by the doses of morphine and scopolamine administered
~ Unknown
recreational drugs
~ Dean Koontz
How often are drugs brought across the border from Mexico? Getting drugs from Mexico into the United States is big business, and Mexican cartels spare little expense or violence to accomplish their mission. One estimate puts the annual value of drugs trafficked into the United States from Mexico at $39 billion.
~ Unknown
Portugal is the only country in the world where all drugs are legal.
~ John Lloyd
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
~ Warren Christopher
This is a foul thing that shouldn't be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it?
~ Maj Sjowall
Nietzsche, who called alcohol and Christianity "the two great European narcotics," was not averse to the therapeutic use of cannabis. "To escape from unbearable pressure you need hashish," Nietzsche wrote.
~ Unknown
Radio, of course, is the least likely medium to join in the descent into a Huxleyan world of technological narcotics. It is, after all, particularly well suited to the transmission of rational, complex language. Nonetheless, and even if we disregard radio's captivation by the music industry, we appear to be left with the chilling fact that such language as radio allows us to hear is increasingly primitive, fragmented, and largely aimed at invoking a visceral response;
~ Neil Postman