Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.