Opium Quotations

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

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.

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

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

We're acting to protect the US financial sector from this network's tainted drug profits, as well as ensure Wei and his cohorts can't use the American financial system to move or launder their opium proceeds.

Since 1978, for almost three decades, China has been growing at over nine percent a year. Yet since 1979 East Asia has been more stable and more peaceful than any other time since the opium wars of 1859.

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale ''crush me and eat me!'' -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.

If a man use opium once he cannot stop it, and it becomes a life-long habit to use opium; hence the English want to introduce it into Japan.

Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.

The area of under opium cultivation is going to increase this year.

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

We are identifying, targeting, disrupting and dismantling some of the world's leading opium and heroin trafficking organizations,

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.

Weaning people off the opium here was not that difficult, because it only yields about 8 kg (18 lb) per hectare.

Attention is the opium of the people

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

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

Babies laughing is like opium.

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

Religion is the opium of the poor