Sentences with phrase «opium for»

Opium for the masses comes to mind.

Works better than opium for a lot of people.

Nearby Vietnam (No. 18) and China (No. 43) can also be hard places for Christians — not because of religious nationalism, but because Communism sees religion as an «opium for the masses» that should be eliminated.

If God is more than a winter pipe dream, an opium for coping on our way to annihilation...!

Religion is opium for the people.

Contrary to Marxist critiques, a fair assessment reveals that traditional faiths are a poor opium for the people.

Religion has been described as the opium for the masses.

If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the present into the future, even in this world.

Milosz witnessed these efforts first - hand and reflected on their results: «Religion, opium for the people.

Not exact matches

And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

Design firm Linehouse transformed a former opium factory into the Chinese flagship office for co-working company WeWork.

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

The city, which is linked by highway to the country's interior, is a vital hub for traffickers moving up and down Mexico's Pacific coast and links them to the state's expansive opium and marijuana cultivation areas.

The health of Imperial Britain's coffers depended on the profitable opium - for - tea trade with the Middle Kingdom, and when the First Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent opium - for - tea trade with the Middle Kingdom, and when the First Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent Opium War threatened the arrangement, Fortune was sent east.

On the other hand, European victory in the Opium Wars meant greater opportunity for spreading the Gospel.

It can be called «pie in the sky,» the «opium of the people,» and doubtless it has been used as an anodyne for much preventable human suffering and exploitation.

My priest friend attacked him publicly for preaching such religious «opium» and stated that the catastrophe was not an accident at all, much less the will of God, but rather the result of an exploitative system that puts profits ahead of human lives and well - being.

Historically, every society has discovered some means of temporary escape for its citizens, ranging from orgiastic dancing and dramatic rituals to alcohol and opium.

Bishop Paulose concludes this discussion, «In this way we respond to Marx's critique of religion that Christianity is not the opium of the people but a way of life in which the Christian participates in Jesus» «being there for others», for the total humanization of humanity.»

Miłosz writes: «A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Who let me just say, were very much on some good drugs, did you know back in those days opium was a way for them to get high, well they did nt call it this but you can do the research yourself.

He described religion, in a famous phrase, as «the opium of the people».14 His deterministic view of history had no place for God as Lord of history.

Karl Marx convince Christian Russians that religion was the opium of the people and they threw their Bibles into the garbage for Communism, Germany was under the church and allowed a nut to moved them inot Nazism.

you know only cover what they get at the local herbals shop, because my faith is pretty anti synthetics in medicine, i mean its like so your broke you leg and want some Heroin derivative for it nope here is an opium salve close as your going to get, oh that's illegal and no insurance covers it, to bad, will power.

Is religion an opium, lulling people with the promise of an afterlife, or is it a cup of coffee for the present?

Also in India, a decoction of chile pods with opium and asafoetida was used as a cure for cholera, and tincture of Capsicum was used against malarial fevers, although we found no connection with quinine with that usage.

Then Scoville gets down to the real nitty - gritty: «Moreover, the pharmacist should remember that such conditions as are found in opium or cocaine habitues (not to say drunkards), often originate in the use of a prescription containing one of these drugs in some form, originally prescribed for a legitimate purpose, but renewed from time to time until the habit is established.»

Funding from opium trade, the weakness and corruption of the Afghan government, the tacit support of many in Pakistan, who have no faith in the West's staying power, and the steady trickle of casualties highlight the need for a political solution.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

Drugs way nastier than marihuana (including methadona, heroine and other opium derivatives) are part of standard medical treatments; making marihuana a prescription drug is not an argument for marihuana legalization because that would mean being for the legalization of novocaine, morphine and all of the other nasty stuff.

Corruption for decades, has been the most potent allegations political parties use when in opposition to oust incumbent government and has become the opium used to daze voters during elections by politicians.

The Film House, which will be the first tenant in the new Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries in Dewitt, plans on starting to film the sci - fi picture «The Opium Wars» in September.

Geologists say newfound deposits in the embattled country could fulfill the world's desire for rare earth and critical minerals and end opium's local stranglehold in the process

Possibly worth trillions of dollars, the minerals could help overcome the country's opium and Taliban strongholds, while also providing the world with crucial elements and minerals needed for high - tech manufacturing, such as TV displays and computer disk drives.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Islamic traders introduced opium to China in the ninth century, and it was used for the next 800 years for the treatment of diarrhea resulting from dysentery.

The two most important of these are morphine and codeine, which are responsible for opium's effects.

The pain - relieving and sleep - inducing properties of opium were well known to ancient healers, but which chemical was responsible for its effects?

Like other doctors of his day, Reynolds thought cannabis might help reduce the need for opium - based painkillers, with their potential for abuse and overdose.

The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»

Tasmanian wallabies have been spotted raiding poppy fields for an opium high — but they are just the latest in a long list of animals on drugs

Wallabies have been munching the poppies grown for opium by the pharmaceutical industry.

The island's isolation and its small population were the main reasons the federal government granted an exclusive licence to Tasmania to grow opium poppies for legal commercial production half a century ago.

Opium, derived from poppies, has been used for millennia as a potent but addictive source of pain relief.

The program has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records, shifting farmers from growing poppy for opium, and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.

For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

The opium poppy is no longer the starting point for many street drugs in the United States, where deaths involving natural and synthetic opiates hit 33,091 in 2015.

Researchers uncover unique kitchen in a 4000 - year - old palace, where priests may have served up opium - laced potions for ceremonies