Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Drugs: the softest one tends to be the first step towards the hardest of them all. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world,… — John Baxter Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“- I picked these last night. I want you to have them. - Th-thanks. What kind of flowers are these? They're pretty.… — Shouji Gatou Copy Share Image
When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“MacGregor shrugged. 'More than the population are opium addicts,' he said. 'Don't dismiss it like that,' she told him impatiently. 'I'm not… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Nice work in their, Herondale, setting the place on fire," Gabriel observed. "Good thing we were there to clean up after you,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
