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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.
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.
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.
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
