Opium Quotes - Page 4

• Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

  Joan Robinson

  Economy, Marxist, Marxism

  On Re-Reading Marx title page (1953) See Karl Marx 2

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• Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

  Christina Stead

  Class, Radicalism, Middle

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.952, Open Road Media

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• Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Beautiful, Art, War

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• Babies laughing is like opium.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Baby, Laughing

  Neil Patrick Harris‏ @ActuallyNPH, twitter.com. January 28, 2011.

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• The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

  Jean Danielou

  Real, Men, People

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Government, People

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

  Fidel Castro

  Religious, Struggle, Medicine

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• The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

  Phillip Adams

  Book, Addiction, Library

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• Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Missing, Had Enough, Facts

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

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sleep, Awakening, Terrible

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

  John Cheever

  Death, Drug, Crux

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.45, Vintage

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• The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Sorcery, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.195, Penguin

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Clothes, Numbers

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.8, Full Moon Publications

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• Attention is the opium of the people

  Fred Ross

  People, Attention

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• Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

  Bill Gaede

  Atheist, Atheism, Mathematics

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• What came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Orange, Darkness

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

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Grass, Prozac, Pops

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• Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

  James Fenton

  Country, Children, War

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• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  William Alcott

  Bed, Cabbage, Used

  William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191

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