Famous quotes containing the words opium, based and/or medicines:
“What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the socalled educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon ones ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the educational system are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“I am bewitched with the rogues company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, Ill be hanged. It could not be else, I have drunk medicines.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)