Top Opium Quotes
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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.
John Desmond Bernal
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Robert Trout
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
Kerry Thornley 
Tom Robbins 
Jean Cocteau 
Thomas Sydenham 
Charles Kingsley 
Antonin Artaud All Opium Quotes
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel 
78% of people like this quote
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
71% of people like this quote
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.
John Desmond Bernal
62% of people like this quote
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Robert Trout
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Kerry Thornley
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
53% of people like this quote
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Robert Trout
53% of people like this quote