“ Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ”
- Andre Malraux- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ”
- Andre Malraux- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”
- E. J. Hobsbawm- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 164
“ Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 790
“ Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations — wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 204
“ War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of "the sheltered life… ”
- Sir Edmund Gosse- Copy
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“ Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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… ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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