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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. -- Andre Malraux
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? -- Bill Hicks
Religion is the opium of the masses. -- Karl Marx
Optimism is the opium of the people. -- Milan Kundera
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. -- Tom Robbins
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. -- Andre Malraux
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. -- Edie Campbell
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. -- Thomas de Quincey
Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. -- Graham Greene
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. -- Karl Marx
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. -- Thomas Sydenham
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. -- Karl Marx
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. -- Charles Kingsley
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for. -- Edie Campbell
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. -- Antonin Artaud
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. -- Edmund Burke
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve. -- Erasmus Darwin
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. -- Jean Cocteau
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world. -- Dennis C. Blair
Religion is the opium of the poor -- Ernest Hemingway
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. -- Edmund Wilson
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. -- Jerzy Peterkiewicz
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. -- Anais Nin
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. -- Sebastian Faulks
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! -- Thomas de Quincey
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. -- Jean Cocteau
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. -- Jean Cocteau
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium. -- Robert Trout
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. -- Robert Trout
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. -- Townsend Harris
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. -- Robert Trout
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. -- Robert Trout
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. -- Kerry Thornley
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. -- Townsend Harris
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time. -- Townsend Harris
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. -- Robert Trout
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. -- John Desmond Bernal
Babies laughing is like opium. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness. -- Toba Beta
Religion is the opium of the poor. -- Ernest Hemingway
Attention is the opium of the people -- Fred Ross
Marxism is the opium of the Marxists. -- Joan Robinson
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. -- Chinua Achebe
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. -- Christina Stead
For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe. -- Fanny Brice
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. -- Matthew Arnold
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death. -- John Cheever
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. -- George Bernard Shaw
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. -- Sebastian Faulks
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world. -- Jean Cocteau
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. -- Bill Gaede
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death. -- Czeslaw Milosz
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people. -- Simone Weil
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. -- George Steiner
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. -- Dean Koontz
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. -- Anais Nin
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. -- Anais Nin
...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. -- Anais Nin
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people. -- Edgar Snow
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay -- Jeet Thayil
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. -- I. F. Stone
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. -- Jennifer Michael Hecht
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. -- Ludwig von Mises
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. -- Horace Mann
The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ?¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ?¦long live life as it is! -- Dziga Vertov
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. -- Jean Danielou
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. -- Kat Duff
All I want in this life are three...a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,a breath of opium, and thee. -- Roman Payne
All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee. -- Roman Payne
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. -- Hunter S. Thompson
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff. -- Auberon Waugh
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God. -- John Updike
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. -- Chuck Palahniuk
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs. -- John Cheever
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new. -- Oscar Wilde
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited. -- Townsend Harris
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium. -- Raymond Aron
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so. -- Townsend Harris
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights. -- H. Rider Haggard
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself. -- Frei Betto
It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism. -- Alan Moore
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects. -- Julio Cortazar
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. -- Czeslaw Milosz
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine. -- Fidel Castro
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly. -- Suzanne Finnamore
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. -- Phillip Adams
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve. -- Helen Cresswell
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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