Opium Quotes
103 quotes by 71 authors
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical…
— Edmund Burke
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train…
— Jean Cocteau
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of…
— Karl Marx
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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside…
— Jean Cocteau
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
— Anais Nin
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The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of…
— Robert Trout
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one…
— Jean Cocteau
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
— Thomas de Quincey
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It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking…
— Frei Betto
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to…
— Antonin Artaud
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[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…
— Terry Eagleton
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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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
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The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined…
— John Coleman
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
— Thomas de Quincey
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So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such…
— Joe Wright
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[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…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I F Stone
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