Famous quotes containing the words opium, wars and/or war:
“The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)
“We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)