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Religion is the opium of the masses. — Karl Marx

All I want in this life are three...
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
a breath of opium,
and thee. — Roman Payne

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world. — Jean Cocteau

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

At the time you've got skills and possessions,
train yourself to be able to survive without them. — Toba Beta

I am burning myself up and will always do so. — Jean Cocteau

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

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke. — Roman Payne

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 isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. — Miguel El Portugues

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. — Robert Trout

Like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas De Quincey

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. — Jerzy Peterkiewicz

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff

She believed everything had held, that it would all be just as she had left it, that the years wouldn't dare swindle her of this homecoming. — Jaina Sanga

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career. — Nancy Farmer

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. — Chinua Achebe

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau

Opium ain't got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow — Catherynne M Valente

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw

Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon. — Jonathan Swift

Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom. — Sebastian Faulks

The film drama is the opium of the people ... down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios ... long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov

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

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

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

Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness. — Toba Beta

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium. — Robert Trout

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death. — John Cheever

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell

The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind. — Jean Cocteau

Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble. — Regis Debray

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks

Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream. — Steven Moore

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

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux

about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts. — Yuval Noah Harari

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium. — John Harris

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin

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

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

Yes, and music is the opium of the people. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. — I. F. Stone

The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future. — Yangsze Choo

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room. — Jordan L. Hawk

Had to run out of a cinema because the smell of the woman's perfume sitting next to me (Opium) combined with her popcorn made me retch. — Liane Moriarty

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals — Edmund Wilson

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable. — Sebastian Faulks

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

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann

We call that opium, children. And don't do drugs, because DRUGS ARE BAD. Okay, I had to put that in there. — Rick Riordan

If God could make a carpenter into a Savior, a slave trader into a reverend, why not an opium addict into an earl? — Michelle Griep

Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses, — Ian Fleming

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

Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide. — Tom Robbins

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people. — Simone Weil

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas De Quincey

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe. — Fanny Brice

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. — Tom Robbins

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast. — Christopher Hitchens

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. — Christina Stead

Babies laughing is like opium. — Neil Patrick Harris

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

Religion is the opium of the poor — Ernest Hemingway,

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit. — Michel Foucault

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede

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

It appears that the English think the Japanese ... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. — Townsend Harris

Optimism is the opium of the people. — Milan Kundera

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere — Karina Cooper

Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery. — R. Scott Bakker

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. — Matthew Arnold

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

Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. — 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

1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium) — Dave Eggers

The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I'm now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium. — Neil Patrick Harris

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? — Bill Hicks

Attention is the opium of the people — Fred Ross

And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world. — Charles Baudelaire

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. — Townsend Harris

Religion is opium for the masses — Nikos Kazantzakis

Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body. — Poppet

Reformed, Poetic Ministry for an Opium Addict — Anonymous