#opium

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

— Andre Malraux

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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Religion is the opium of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

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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

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

— Tom Robbins

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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Optimism is the opium of the people. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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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. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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