Opium Quotes

"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
-Andre Malraux

"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

"Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication."
-Robert Browning

"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

"We are identifying, targeting, disrupting and dismantling some of the world's leading opium and heroin trafficking organizations."
-Karen Tandy

"Opium, yes. You can smell it in the evening."
-Jafar Shalde

"They tell people, 'You carry human mess on your head now, because if you do that and do it dutifully, then in the next life you will carry flowers.' What bull is this? It's a massive dose of opium that was given to these people so that they don't stand up and fight."
-Damodar Jadhav

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide."
-Tom Robbins

"Weaning people off the opium here was not that difficult, because it only yields about 8 kg (18 lb) per hectare."
-Clifford Heinzer