the same receptor sites in our brains that respond to…

“So this is your brain on wheat: Digestion yields morphine-like compounds that bind to the brain’s opiate receptors. It induces a form of reward,…

— William Davis

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

— Jane McGonigal

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

— Jean Cocteau

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three…

— John Harvey Kellogg

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured…

— Dennis C. Blair

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

— Robert Trout

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…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

— Joan Robinson

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while…

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Kat Duff

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

— John Cheever

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

“Religion is opium for the masses”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

— Fanny Brice