First Opium War/opium War 1839%e2%80%9342

Famous quotes containing the words opium and/or war:

    “And I said,
    “This holy concern for the truth—
    no one worries about it except liars.”
    And God was bored.
    He turned on his side
    like an opium eater
    and slept.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children’s lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)