Opium Quotes

Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

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

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

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

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.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

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

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

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.