Opium Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

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

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

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

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

“To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals.”

“All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee.”

“The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.”