Top 148 Opium Quotes & Sayings

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

Babies laughing is like opium.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

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

Attention is the opium of the people

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.

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

Religion is the opium of the poor.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

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

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

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

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it.

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

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

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

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

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

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

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.

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

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

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

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."

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

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

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

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

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

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.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

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.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

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