“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
“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
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — Antonin Artaud 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
“Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs 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
“- 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
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
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
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout 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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“his wife, it seems, would very soon be excorting his sister to a certain clinic near New Delhi, where she might die… — Tom Robbins 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
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko 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
