“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals”
Edmund Wilson
“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.”
Anais Nin
“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
“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
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Karl Marx
“The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”
Ronald Reagan
“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
