The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout 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
“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!” — Steve Wiegand Copy Share Image
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley 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
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
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
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — 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
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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