Quotes: Opium

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

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.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

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.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

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.