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Babies laughing is like opium.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
Attention is the opium of the people
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
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.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
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.
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.
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
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.
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
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.
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.