Destructive Quote by Bruno Bauer

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

— Auberon Waugh

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the…

— Jean Cocteau

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book…

— Phillip Adams

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

— Andre Malraux

“I feel The Fear coming on, and the only cure for that is to chew up a fat black wad of blood-opium about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political,…

— George Bernard Shaw