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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Robert Trout

Destruction

Opium

Ugly

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

Religion

Opium

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.

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

Tom Robbins

Religion

Opium

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.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

Religion

Opium

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

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

Optimism is the opium of the people.

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.