Quotes with addiction

  • Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
  • But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
  • 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.

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  • W. H. Auden All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Armistead Maupin But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Kate Millet 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
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Salman Rushdie Faith without doubt is addiction.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Martin Amis 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
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Allan Bloom Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Caitlin Moran Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Angela Davis Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Michael Douglas 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.
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  • George Sheehan 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.
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Barry Schwartz Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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