This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the… — Edie Campbell 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
“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
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
“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
“Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n’y a de continuellement bon que l’habitude d’un travail entêté. Il… — Flaubert (how very sad 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
“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
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard… — Albert Einstein 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
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
“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
“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
“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 President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
“Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves.” — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“I’m merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That’s… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton 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
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
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in… — Miguel de Unamuno 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
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
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
![“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)
![“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/terry-eagleton-1660_beckham_f-or-the-most-part-football-these-days-i_303401.jpg)
![“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the…” quote by John Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbd/john-coleman-26995_american-civil-war_the-very-same-british-and-american-famil_505210.jpg)
