Definition of Opium

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Definition of Opium
	Opium The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. Related Definitions: Inspissated, Juice, Of, Or, Papaver, Poppy, The, White

Opium Quotations

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera

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.
Antonin Artaud

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau

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

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

Opium Translations

opium in Dutch is opium
opium in Spanish is opio

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