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

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Edmund Wilson