Opium Quotes

103 quotes by 71 authors

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
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
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
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
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
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin
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
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
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! — Thomas de Quincey
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
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
[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
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. — George Bernard Shaw
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… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
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
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
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. — Thomas de Quincey
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
[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
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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