Quotes About Opium

Aren't we all better dead? the opium reasoned within me.

Overall," Nigel drawled, "I think I would prefer opium as the religion of the masses.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Did you ever sleep in a field of orange-trees in bloom? The air which one inhales deliciously is a quintessence of perfumes. This powerful and sweet smell, as savoury as a sweetmeat, seems to penetrate one, to impregnate, to intoxicate, to induce languor, to bring about a dreamy and somnolent torpor. It is like opium prepared by fairy hands and not by chemists.

The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws. Consumable survival must constantly expand because it never ceases to include privation . If augmented survival never comes to a resolution, if there is no point where it might stop expanding this is because it is itself stuck in the realm of privation. It may gild poverty, but it cannot transcend it.

The king of the opium trade, however, was Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, whose name is ubiquitous in the city's public spaces. Few remember that the man whose name graces the famous art school Sir J. J. School of Art and the popular Sir J. J. Hospital earned his exalted place through drug trafficking.

I picked these last night. I want you to have them. - Th-thanks. What kind of flowers are these? They're pretty. - The flowers themselves aren't important. It would be better if the blossoms fell off right away. - What!? - They're poppies. When the petals fall off, you can cut the seed pods to make opium. Basically, these are the raw materials for heroin. If you sell that in the city, you should bring in an impressive amount of money.

Those hours of opium happiness which the Doctor and I spent together in secret were regulated with a scientific accuracy. We did not blindly smoke the drug of paradise, and leave our dreams to chance. While smoking, we carefully steered our conversation through the brightest and calmest channels of thought.

El opio de los pobres hace rato que ya no es la religión. Lo es la cultura de los medios de comunicación

The opium trade produced a rationale for the Christian presence in China, turning the country into a depraved mass of opium sots to be disciplined and improved by salvation-hungry missionaries.

Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a horror of it. I have lived in China without ever being curious enough to put a pipe to my lips. It is not a question of virtue. I do not like pharmacopoeia. I like lucidity. It is my guiding star. I will have nothing to do with the vertigo of opium which, with the single exception of De Quincey, is no friend to poetry. It is a filthy poison.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

It is said that members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished "women's tonics," preparations whose active ingredient was laudanum—opium.

In order for the English mind to be sharpened with tea, the Chinese mind had to be clouded with opium.

He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides and the motions of the planets, and fondly on the effects of opium.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather Warren Delano made much of the family's fortune by trading opium, a fact that the Roosevelt family has never exactly crowed about.

Eighty percent of the world's opium supply comes from Afghanistan. And production has been rising steadily since we went in there. One thing the Taliban did do was crush the opium warlords in the name of Islam. Now that we're in charge, in the name of democracy, they're flourishing again.

Another State Department representative noted that the central government lacked legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan public, the lowest in 10 years, according to polling done in the country. He observed that the illicit economy, opium and illegal mining, was the size of the regular economy, and a significant portion was under control of Taliban insurgents.

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

A few key points were well established. The Taliban imposed two religious taxes, ushr and zakat, on the opium economy. The taxes hit farmers, truckers, morphine makers, and smugglers. The tax rates were 10 and 20 percent, prescribed by the Koran, and so not subject to change. Therefore, as opium growing boomed in the south in 2006 and 2007, it was logical to conclude that the Taliban's coffers had also swelled.

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

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.