Opium Quotes

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

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

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

Two-and-a-half billion dollars, one-half of the GDP of Afghanistan is poppy, 70 percent of that sold in Europe as opium, funding through the black market, the terrorists cells not only in this country but all across the world. - Tim Ryan

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! - Thomas De Quincey