Definition of Addiction

Addiction

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

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Addiction Quotations

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
John Walters

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Keith Richards

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
Nikki Sixx

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Gene Tierney

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Dennis Weaver

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
Dennis Farina

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Allan Bloom

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Ellen Burstyn

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
Payne Stewart

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
Zooey Deschanel

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
Katherine Heigl

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
Christopher Meloni

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
Richard M. Daley

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
Ken Hensley

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Addiction Translations

addiction in German is Sucht, Hang
addiction in Italian is mania
addiction in Swedish is begivenhet

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