Opium Quotes
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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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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
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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
Keywords: amongst :: and :: disorders :: exquisite :: faculties :: greatly :: harmony :: introduces :: invigorates :: it :: legislation :: man :: mental :: most :: of :: opium :: order :: possession :: robs :: self :: the :: them :: whereas :: wineSubject: Opium QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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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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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals
Edmund Wilson
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux
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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Alexander Nikonov
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Robert Trout
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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.
Robert Trout
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Andrew Buckle
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Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,
Robert Brown
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Robert Trout
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Allen Tate
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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
Robert Trout
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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.
Andrew Duff
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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert Trout
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
