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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
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
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
— Thomas De Quincey
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.
— Jerzy Peterkiewicz
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
— Robert Trout
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
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
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
— Edie Campbell
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
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOYes, 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
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
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
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
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
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(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
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