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Quotes on Alcohol
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It is easier to stay out than get out. Mark Twain Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. Augustine J. Duganne Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca the Younger To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. Confucius
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Winston Churchill Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me. Henry Rollins One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I'm having a good time. Nancy Astor Water is the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau If you need an excuse for why you don't drink alcohol, you could say that addiction runs in your family and you don't want to try it even once because you may not stop until you are dead in a puddle of your own vomit or smashed into the side of a mini-van with children's body parts scattered around your corpse. Duane Alan Hahn Fun without challenge, without inner satisfaction, often comes from surrogate motivators influencing one's actions and perceptions. More often than not, something like this is considered 'fun' because it is a lack of 'pain,' be it social, physical, or psychological pain. For example, if you are programmed with social expectations that drinking and partying are key steps in securing one's self-worth, and that not having a bar life makes one lame and unaccepted, then one can squander away much of life in a drunken stupor, blissfully thinking all is fun with this programmed lifestyle. First the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man. Japanese Proverb If you've ever taken alcohol into your body, you have very little will to live. The body was not meant to intake alcohol. It impairs the mind. God from Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch (adapted) There's no time, I don't care what happens, that drinking makes anything better. It never makes anything better. It always makes it worse and drinking always makes any event seem a hundred times worse than it actually is. Don Imus on Imus in the Morning (October 24, 2011) Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. Thomas Fuller You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead. Just don't harm others when you do. Jim Goebel Is "all things in moderation" your motto? Really? Razorblade to your wrist in moderation? Slam your penis in a car door in moderation? Salad fork plunged into your eye in moderation? I don't follow that old, tired saying. It's too easy to become an alcoholic. Too easy to believe that you need a drink to cope, especially when movies and TV shows like Bewitched pounded the "I need a drink" catchphrase into our brains since childhood. Duane Alan Hahn We make a ladder for ourselves out of our vices when we trample them. St. Augustine When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do. William Blake The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Mal Pancoast Alcohol can ruin your life and the lives of others, so why even take one drink? Duane Alan Hahn Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Marquis de Sade Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. Marguerite Duras People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Ann Landers
People who drink to medicate their pain are bad enough, but 'party' drinkers who get drunk for 'fun' are the worst because they only think of their own pleasure. That would be fine if they were alone, but they almost always involve someone else. They don't really care what they do to their children, spouses, lovers, relatives, friends or total strangers they may maim or kill on the roads, as long as they're having fun. Duane Alan Hahn An impaired mind is an unprepared mind. Duane Alan Hahn Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. Joyce Rebeta-Burditt I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me, spiritually and financially. Denzel Washington A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped drinking, I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now. John Larroquette (adapted) Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Sir Walter Scott There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Alcohol impairs calcium absorption by affecting the liver's ability to activate vitamin D. Vitamin D is important in the metabolism of calcium. The more alcohol you drink, the more you hinder your body's ability to build up and maintain healthy bones. From Living Health by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr. To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. Arthur Schopenhauer No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. John W. Scoville What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. Abraham H. Maslow When some men lose their jobs, instead of learning new skills to find new and better jobs, they think to themselves, "I'm not a man without my job. I'm a bad husband and father because I can't support my family." Their own negative thinking causes depression and they start drinking. Many of them even abuse the family they were so concerned about before. If they can find the time and money for booze binges and beatings, they can find the time and money for a little training and education. Duane Alan Hahn They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. Plato Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains. Mary Pettibone Poole A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. Thomas Fuller I come from a family that had an alcoholic and a binge drinker in it. Drinking and smoking helped kill my grandfather at age 69 and also helped kill my abusive first stepfather who died at the age of 45. It also took many years for me to overcome the flashbacks from my childhood. I lived it. I know the truth. Drinking has no place in the home. Duane Alan Hahn I used to be a drunk driver, and yes, I drank and drove even after my licence was suspended for a DUI. The reason I drove drunk so many times was because it was fun. When a person is drunk they do not have the ability to make a decision based on anything other than "will this be fun or not?" The reason I quit drinking was because I knew I could not stop myself from driving drunk. I gave up my love and passion for alcohol to make the roads safer because I was terrified I was going to kill someone. I don't miss the alcohol at all, and I don't miss the feeling every morning waking up thinking I could have killed someone the night before. Killing someone whether you intend to or not is an antisocial act, drinking is antisocial behavior (even if you are only a so-called 'social drinker'), so killing people with your car because you are drunk is very antisocial (it's almost like strapping a bomb to your chest and detonating it in a public place). I think people who are caught drinking and driving should be thrown in jail until they die, because there is no other way to stop them. I was fortunate to be able to see how my behavior was affecting society and to be able to make the decision to stop (and follow through with it). I have been sober almost a year and the most terrifying thing in my life is driving home from work every night at midnight and being so scared that the person driving toward me in the other lane is hammered that I practically pull over and stop. Charity Haggett (August 25, 2003)
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Heart of Gold (Jon Gibson) A Message from Anne Rice Drinking and Driving Ad Buzzed Driving - Hospital Texting While Driving Texting While Driving Caught on Tape Drunk Driving Prevention - Crashing Glasses Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of A & T The Case For Murder Unlike what the guy in the video above said, if you drive drunk, you are a serious danger to others. It's not cute. It's not funny. If you end up smashing into someone and they die, you are a dangerous, cold-blooded killer. There's no other way to look at it. You cared more about your ego, pleasure, and convenience than the lives of others. It's no different than if you shot a gun into a crowd. You should either go to prison for the rest of your life or receive a lethal injection.
It might sound harsh to some, but if you're a drunken murderer, the only way to make the world a little safer is for you to be permanently removed from society. Chances are you'll drive drunk again if given the chance since most drunk drivers appear to be disgusting pieces of garbage who only think about their own pleasure and convenience. We will not allow you to 'shoot your gun into the crowd' again. You must be removed from society. You gave up your rights the moment you got behind the wheel while drunk (without caring who you might kill). Life as you knew it is over. |
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You must know that there are many hells, and they are mostly of our own making. That is one of those platitudes which are based upon fact.
Desiring one day to see the particular kind of hell to which a drunkard would be likely to go, I sought that part of the hollow sphere around the world which corresponds to one of those countries where drunkenness is most common. Souls, when they come out, usually remain in the neighborhood where they have lived, unless there is some strong reason to the contrary.
I had no difficulty in finding a hell full of drunkards. What do you fancy they were doing? Repenting their sins? Not at all. They were hovering around those places on earth where the fumes of alcohol, and the heavier fumes of those who over-indulge in alcohol, made sickening the atmosphere. It is no wonder that sensitive people dislike the neighborhood of drinking saloons. . .
I placed myself in a sympathetic and neutral state, so that I could see into both worlds.
A young man with restless eyes and a troubled face entered one of those 'gin palaces' . . . He was leaning on the bar, drinking a glass of some soul-destroying compound. And close to him, taller than he and bending over him, with its repulsive, bloated, ghastly face pressed close to his, as if to smell his whiskey-tainted breath, was one of the most horrible astral beings which I have seen in this world since I came out. The hands of the creature . . . were clutching the young man's form, one long and naked arm was around his shoulders, the other around his hips. It was literally sucking the liquor-soaked life of its victim, absorbing him, using him, in the successful attempt to enjoy vicariously the passion which death had intensified.
But was that a creature in hell? you ask. Yes, for I could look into its mind and see its sufferings. For ever (the words 'for ever' may be used of that which seems endless) this entity was doomed to crave and crave and never to be satisfied.
There was in it just enough left of the mind which had made it man—just enough to catch a fitful glimpse now and then of the horror of its own state. It had no desire to escape, but the very consciousness of the impossibility of escape was an added torment. . .
And the young man who leaned on the bar in that gilded palace of gin was filled with a nameless horror and sought to leave the place; but the arms of the thing that was now his master clutched him tighter and tighter, the sodden, vaporous cheek was pressed closer to his, the desire of the vampire creature aroused an answering desire in its victim, and the young man demanded another glass.
Verily, earth and hell are neighboring states, and the frontier has never been charted.
I have seen hells of lust and hells of hatred; hells of untruthfulness, where every object which the wretched dweller tried to grasp turned into something else which was a denial of the thing desired, where truth was mocked eternally and nothing was real, but everything—changing and uncertain as untruthfulness—became its own antithesis. . .
(The ghost of David Patterson Hatch from To Those About to Die: Letters from a Living Dead Man)
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