#opium

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#expense #formed #habit #increase #once

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. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#karl-marx #opium-of-the-people #religion #death

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

— Andre Malraux

#china #intoxication #islam #need #opium

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

#opium #religion

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

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

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

— Tom Robbins

#merely #opium #religion