Drugs Quote by Thomas Sydenham

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious…

— Thomas Sydenham

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“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

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

“Pain is never ennobling, only degrading. And do not be afraid, sir, that there will ever be too little of it in the world…

— Richard Gordon

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!”

— Steve Wiegand

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

— Andre Malraux