We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley 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
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
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously.… — Jean Cocteau 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
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner 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
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux 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
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
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
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so… — Graham Greene 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
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to… — Fidel Castro 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
“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.” — Steven Moore 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
