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| If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely¨ change is due to want power. Wanting the new ADDICTION more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. | George Sheehan | |
| It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an ADDICTION, and a tacit conspiracy. | Martin Amis | 1949-, British Author |
| It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict. | Anne W. Schaef | |
| Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| America is addicted to wars of distraction. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. | Billie Holiday | 1915-1959, American Jazz Singer |
| Every form of ADDICTION is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. | Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker |
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| Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist. | Jeanne Moreau | 1928-, French Actress and Director |
| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. | John W. Gardner | 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist |
| There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological ADDICTION, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined. | Kate Millet | 1934-, American Feminist Author |
| There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex ADDICTION. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. | Michael Douglas | 1944-, American Actor, Director, Producer |
| Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. | Richard Neville | |
| Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop. | Robert Holden | |
| My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. | Terence | BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies |
| All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of ADDICTION is damnation. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
