All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
- Auden, W. H.

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

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we?re selling this deadly stuff anyway?
- Quindlen, Anna

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.
- Szasz, Thomas