The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
It appears that the English think the Japanese. . . are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
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.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
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.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
. . . like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
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.
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
