It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know? — Bill Hicks 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
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Drugs: the softest one tends to be the first step towards the hardest of them all. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's… — Alan Moore 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
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
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world,… — John Baxter Copy Share Image
“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
“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
“- I picked these last night. I want you to have them. - Th-thanks. What kind of flowers are these? They're pretty.… — Shouji Gatou Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on… — Charles Bukowski 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
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout 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
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks 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
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
“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!” — Steve Wiegand Copy Share Image
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau 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
