A Quote by Mitch Hedberg

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Mitch Hedberg

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Alcoholism Disease Get Having Only

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Mitch Hedberg
American - Comedian
February 24, 1968 - March 30, 2005

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

Mitch Hedberg

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Vance Havner

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Malachy McCourt

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Liza Minnelli

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Craig Ferguson

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

Liza Minnelli

I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol.

Dom Irrera

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Caroline Knapp

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Malachy McCourt

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Terence McKenna

But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.

Adrian Dunbar

Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.