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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
God is the new drug.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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.