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

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Rap was my drug.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

MySpace is an addiction.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.