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 abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“At the time, we were told that this was also the area from which up to ninety-eight percent of the opium, and… — Nicholas Irving Copy Share Image
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and… — Michael DeLong Copy Share Image
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.” — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“The doctor came and prescribed opium for me. What a marvellous remedy for the pains of my experience!” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Opium for tea—a formula which not only explains the successes of English imperialism in the Far East, but which thoroughly typified Europe's… — Wolfgang Schivelbusch Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“it’s yours until it makes an appearance in the world. It’s yours in the same way your liver is; you wouldn’t catch… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
“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
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should… — Helen Cresswell Copy Share Image
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
