Awareness Quotes

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell

"I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about weed is getting caught with it."

- Bill Murray

"I don’t think pot is more dangerous than alcohol."

- Barack Obama

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity, and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."

- Carl Sagan

"People say you can abuse marijuana. Well shit, you can abuse cheeseburgers too, you know? You don’t go around closing Burger King because you can abuse something."

- Joe Rogan

"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit unnatural?"

- Bill Hicks

"A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities."

- Sebastian Marincolo

"Even if one doesn’t smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it!"

- Danny DeVito

"I don’t think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol."

- Barack Obama

"I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about getting weed is getting caught with it."

- Bill Murray

"Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you’re thinking about it."

- Daniel Kahneman

"People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action."

- Steve Maraboli

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people’s behaviors and bodies."

- Julia Serano

"But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It’s a part of the spectrum of people’s realities. Then you stop wondering about the cause and you start realizing it’s a part of reality."

- Susan Kuklin

"As long as we are living in a culture where one has to prove their womanhood or manhood, we are not living in a free culture."

- Laverne Cox

"The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined."

- Megan Rapinoe

"We cannot be antiracist if we are homophobic or transphobic… All Black lives include those of poor transgender Black women, perhaps the most violated and oppressed of all the Black intersectional groups."

- Ibram X. Kendi

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

- W. Clement Stone

"Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons."

- Travis Bradberry

"A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is."

- Nancy Kress

"Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?"

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects."

- Pope Francis

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."

- Douglas Adams

"You have to be taught to be second class. You're not born that way."

- Lena Horne

"Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him."

- Michael Jackson

"Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel."

- Michael Jackson

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."

- Michael Jackson

"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."

- Chaz Bono

"It’s CANnabis, not CAN’Tabis."