Facilitate Quote by Kat Duff

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

“Soon after my husband and I started living together, he learned to make noise before coming into my writing space. He learned to do…

— Marcia Golub

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

— Anonymous

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was…

— Paul Fleischman

“The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten, thirty, sometimes…

— Thomas Mann

“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt to the…

— Andrew Marr

One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to…

— Arianna Huffington

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced…

— Graham Hancock

Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.

— Stanislav Grof

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In…

— William S. Burroughs