Opium Quotes - Page 2

• Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

  Edmund Wilson

  Marxism

  Edmund Wilson, Edward J.N. Wilson (1983). “The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period”

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• Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

  Jerzy Peterkiewicz

  Politics, Revolution

  "Fictional character: Michael Arnold Travis". O Lucky Man!, www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

  Bill Hicks

  Life Changing, Drinking, Night

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Thinking, Mountain, Kind

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

  Sebastian Faulks

  Suffering, Doe, Interest

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Madness, Horror

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.201, Diversion Books

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• It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

  Jean Cocteau

  Knowing, Drug, Saint

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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

  Thomas Sydenham

  Men, Giving, Suffering

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• The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Habit, Increase

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• I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

  Dennis C. Blair

  War, Thinking, Chinese

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• The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

  Karl Marx

  Giving Up, Real, People

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Drug, Absence

  "Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934)". "Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings". Book by Antonin Artaud, 1976.

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• Optimism is the opium of the people.

  Milan Kundera

  Optimistic, Optimism, People

  Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

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• Religion is the opium of the poor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Poor

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7764, Simon and Schuster

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

  Kerry Thornley

  Weed, Marijuana, Religion

  The Introduction to the 5th Edition of "Principia Discordia" by Kerry Thornley, 1963.

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• The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

  Jean Cocteau

  Stupid, Smell, Drug

  Jean Cocteau (1932). “Opium: The Diary of an Addict”

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Emotional, Tea

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• In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Opiates, Aspirin

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

  Anais Nin

  Addiction, Drug, Vices

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• 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.

  Julio Cortazar

  Book, Drug, Quality

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• It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

  Frei Betto

  People, Heaven, Bourgeoisie

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• We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Wish, Looks

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ferrets, Gabriel, Haze

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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