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Quotations related to: "alcohol"

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No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Swiss psychologist
1875 - 1961
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Irish dramatist & socialist
1856 - 1950
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Irish dramatist & socialist
1856 - 1950
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
US journalist
1939 - 2005
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson - Interview in Time Magazine

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