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
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. — Anonymous 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
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
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
“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“the same receptor sites in our brains that respond to heroine and opium (the opiate receptors) are triggered by wheat.” — Robb Wolf Copy Share Image
In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
“You won't do this, my son! I won't have you waste your life. Musicians, artists, criminals, opium addicts ... You'll end up… — Rana Dasgupta 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
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley 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
“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
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication,… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I… — Blaise Cendrars 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
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in… — Thomas De Quincy Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne 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
“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
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 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
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this,… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
“I know well enough that one of those leaders of what they call the Social Revolution said that religion is the opium… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
![“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.” quote by Bruno Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/bruno-bauer-41690_destructive_after-fulfilling-its-destructive-urge-to_384927.jpg)
![“[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.” quote by Evgeny Morozov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b87/evgeny-morozov-2995_assuming_people-somehow-assume-that-the-internet_1302634.png)
