“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“My doctors, who are not cavalier with prescriptions, give me this medication because I have earned their trust. And yet, with mounting… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“The addiction crisis is terrifying, and many people don’t comprehend appropriate opioid use. When I first started taking pain medication, I remember… — Dianne Bourque Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
