Quotes About Intoxicants

books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

The enemy is conventional language; the antidote is poetry and mild intoxicants.

Love, sleep, drugs and intoxicants are elementary forms of art, or rather, of producing the same effect as art. But love, sleep and drugs all have their disillusion.

We cannot properly grasp the dynamics of human social life unless we understand the role that intoxicants have played in making civilization possible.

The uniformly pretty waitresses discussed the finer points of cocaine, Quaaludes, and other intoxicants, arguing for this one or that, with the energy of young philosophers. My fellow workers read my silence on the subject as moral condemnation, but in truth, I've always been afraid of drugs. The jolts and tingles that might be gained from these substances don't attract me. My interest has always been in maintaining balance, not tipping it.

one of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants

In uncounted ways has food forged alliances that intoxicants keep lubricated

recreational drugs

Love poems, discovered in Egyptian tombs, strongly hint that it was the Egyptian women who did the courting, oftimes wooing the male by plying him with intoxicants to weaken his protestations.