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103 Opium quotes by 71 unique authors

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. — Sebastian Faulks
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God. — John Updike
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration,… — Erasmus Darwin
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. — George Steiner
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they… — Charles Kingsley
Optimism is the opium of the people. — Milan Kundera
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux
Religion is the opium of the masses. — Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of… — Karl Marx
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. — Tom Robbins
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. — Edmund Wilson
In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine… — Edgar Allan Poe
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place… — Anais Nin
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make… — Jean Cocteau
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. — Chuck Palahniuk
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. — Chinua Achebe

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