Quotes About Opium

Jesus Christ is Free Trade and Free Trade is Jesus Christ." Truer words, I believe, were never spoken. If it is God's will that opium be used as an instrument to open China to his teachings, then so be it.

it seemed to me exceedingly peculiar that a man should love flowers as well as opium - and yet I see now that there is no contradiction in this, for are they not perhaps both a means to a kind of intoxication ? Could it not even be said that one might lead inevitably to the other ?

L'oppio inonderà il mercato come un diluvio monsonico

then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world, except for that of the sea.

Religion is the opium of the People. She had been made to repeat that parrot-wise when she was a child, but since living in England she had come to consider Karl Marx a dull bigot and had started to take an interest in the occult. But Meg's fluttering hands and crazed confession told her that the slogan was true. Religion and the supernatural were drugs: mental poisons to kill reason and create insanity.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.

Religion is the opium of the people!

Eccola chiesa di Nostra Signora, un edificio antico, con l'adobe annerito dal tempo. Decido di entrarci. Per ragioni sentimentali, non per altro. Non ho mai letto Lenin, ma l'ho sentito citare: la religione è l'oppio dei popoli. Quanto a me, sono ateo: ho letto L' Anticristo e la considero un'opera fondamentale. Credo nel cambiamento dei valori, Signore. La Chiesa deve sparire; è il ricettacolo degli stolti, delle canaglie e delle mezze cartucce.

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.

Religion for them, as Régis Debray put it, is not "the opium of the people, but the vitamin of the weak.

the legends persist, of Sichuanese cooks spiking their dishes with opium. Nothing else explains the powerful addiction one develops to something that just hurts so bad.

Ac- cording to Chesterton, tea-drinking' is 'pagan', while beer- drinking is 'Christian', and coffee is 'the puritan's opium'.

The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.

Here's your first problem, he said, pointing at a sentence. 'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

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 the people.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

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

opio ni siquiera era entonces una droga nociva: el láudano era un sedante nada más. Y empleado por los pudientes, que los pobres no podían costearse. La religión es el válium del pobre, eso es