List of Graham Hancock Quotes

People Think I'm A Freemason, And I'm Not. People Think I Believe The End Of The World Is Coming On 21 December 2012, And I Don't.

The Use Of Language Around Drugs Is Really Important. So We Find That It's Increasingly Difficult In Our Society To Find The Word "drug" Not Connected To The Word "abuse." The Notion Of A Responsible Use Of Drugs Is Written Out In The Language Of Our Culture.

Most Of The So-called Illegal Drugs Have Vastly Increased In Use, Despite Billions Of Dollars Spent Suppressing Them. I Believe 750,000 Americans Are Arrested Every Year For Possession Of Cannabis. I Mean That's 750, 000 Lives Damaged By That Arrest Process. It's A Crazy, Crazy System. It's Playing Into The System That The Hallucinogens Are Grouped Together With Addictive Drugs, Which They Are Not. But Addictive Or Not It's Our Responsibility As Adults To Make Decisions And It's Not The States' Right To Do That, In My Opinion.

I See Myself As A Journalist Reporting Neglected Stories About Our Past And Trying To Bring Rigor, Reason And Intuition To The Quest.

You Have To Understand That We've Had More Than 40 Years Now Of Massively Financed Propaganda Called The 'war On Drugs'.

Just Plain Logic Says That The War On Drugs Does Not Work. It Absolutely Does Not Work. We Have This Highly Addictive Legal Drug Called Tobacco Which Has Never Resulted In People Being Sent To Prison, But There Has Been A Massive Reduction In Its Consumption Simply Because Responsible Adults Looking At Their Own Bodies Have Said They Don't Want To Do That To Themselves.

Science Has Often Resisted New Ideas And Fought Bitterly To Prevent Them Coming On Board.

It May Be That Dmt Makes Us Able To Perceive What The Physicist Call "dark Matter" - The 95 Per Cent Of The Universe's Mass That Is Known To Exist But That At Present Remains Invisible To Our Senses And Instruments.

There Are All Kinds Of Ways To Challenge Ourselves. Some People Do It By Climbing A Mountain Or Scuba Diving. The Most Profound And Challenging Ordeals Is To Drink Ayahuasca. It Is In A Way The Ultimate Adventure.

Human History Has Become Too Much A Matter Of Dogma Taught By 'professionals' In Ivory Towers As Though It's All Fact. Actually, Much Of Human History Is Up For Grabs. The Further Back You Go, The More That The History That's Taught In The Schools And Universities Begins To Look Like Some Kind Of Faerie Story.

Do We As Adults Have The Right To Make Decisions About What We Put In Our Own Bodies And What We Experience With Our Own Consciousness Without Reference To The Powers Of The State, Or Must We Seek Permission From The State In Order To Explore Our Own Consciousness?

If This Is How Science Operates, By Silencing Those Who Express Opposing Views Rather Than By Debating With Them, Then Science Is Dead And We Are In A New Era Of The Inquisition.