Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
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• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
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• A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Power
  • Today
  • Drug

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Drug

• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Business
  • Experience

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Up
  • Education
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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  

  Daryl Gates
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• We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Drug

• I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

  

  Davey Havok Blaqk Audio
  • Drug

• Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Drug

• We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Drug

• Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • Work
  • Drug

• Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • World
  • Long
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• I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Attitude

• I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Truth

• I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Experience

• I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Confidence

• The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Terror