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
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
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the… — John Desmond Bernal 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
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will… — Townsend Harris 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
“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
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,… — Evgeny Morozov 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
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
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image