Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a… — Dennis C. Blair 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
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield 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
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication,… — Bruno Bauer 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
Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller 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
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
It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“My love", she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, "now… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this… — Jürgen Moltmann 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
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. — I. F. Stone 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
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
![“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/555/terry-eagleton-1660_beckham_f-or-the-most-part-football-these-days-i_303401.jpg)
![“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.” quote by Bruno Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de4/bruno-bauer-41690_destructive_after-fulfilling-its-destructive-urge-to_384927.jpg)
![“Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/762/erasmus-darwin-17186_credit_opium-is-the-only-drug-to-be-rely-d-on-a_368750.jpg)
