Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people. — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in… — Thomas De Quincy Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“At the time you've got skills and possessions, train yourself to be able to survive without them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!” — Steve Wiegand Copy Share Image
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
