Opium Quotes
Opium Quote of the day
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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.
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
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.
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.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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.
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
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.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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.
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
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.
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.
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.
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.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
