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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… — Edmund Burke
- Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out… — Jean Cocteau
- 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
- Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx
- If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — 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… — Robert Trout
- It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously.… — 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… — Frei Betto
- It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must… — 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… — Terry Eagleton