“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas de Quincey 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
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
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out… — Jean Cocteau 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 pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more… — Bruno Bauer 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
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
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“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
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate… — Karl Marx 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
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 appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. — Townsend Harris 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
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
“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
