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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
Religion
Soul
Heart
People
World
Sigh
Soulless
Opium
Oppressed
Conditions
Heartless
Creature
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
Religion
Masses
Opium
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.
Edmund Burke
Beer
Pressure
Men
Wine
Aid
Cares
Our
Consolation
Moral
Physical
Some
Mortal
Countries
Sorrows
Opium
Condition
Times
Brandy
Tobacco
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Kerry Thornley
Religion
Masses
Opium
Fringe
Then
Disorganized
Organized
Organized Religion
Lunatic
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Charles Kingsley
Bible
Burden
Patient
Beasts
Mere
Opium
Overloaded
Were
Handbook
While
Dose
Used
Special
Keeping
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
Edie Campbell
Black
Scent
About
Somehow
Like
Opium
Understated
Saint
Familiar
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
Edie Campbell
You
Woman
Black
Living
Embodiment
Embody
Suppose
Opium
Intangible
Brand
Role
Stands
Things
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
Thought
Mountains
Broad
Everything
Kind
Make
Opium
Still
Exists
While
Us
Transparent
Awake
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
Destruction
Ugly
Crimes
India
Seizure
Takeover
Empire
Most
Opium
China
Aspect
Use
Flood
British
British Empire
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert Trout
Before
Medicine
Addiction
Had
Although
Opium
Arrived
Chinese
Used
Widespread
British
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
God
Man
Pleased
Relieve
Give
Remedies
Almighty
Almighty God
None
Opium
His
Which
Sufferings
Among
Universal
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas de Quincey
Will
Complexion
Long
Solemn
Pleasures
Laugh
Nobody
Deals
Opium
Much
Who
Even
Grave
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
Religion
Merely
Masses
Opium
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
Townsend Harris
War
Dangerous
President
States
More
Opium
Than
Japanese
United
United States
Thinks
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
War
Time
Will
Increase
Once
Only
Habit
Could
Opium
Expense
Formed
Paid
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
Townsend Harris
Think
Fond
Also
Opium
Want
Japanese
English
Appears
Bring
Here
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.
Townsend Harris
Made
President
Strictly
Prohibited
Introduction
About
He
Wishes
Opium
Very
Prudent
May
Japanese
Treaty
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