Opiate Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Opiate

Opiate Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Opiate quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. — Tom Stoppard

Fantasy is not practice for what is real - fantasy is the opiate of women. — Shannon Hale

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night, — Jack Kerouac

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. — A.W. Tozer

Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism, — John Green

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. — Thomas Szasz

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror. — Thomas Hardy

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away. — N.D. Wilson

There was no opiate like a French pillow. — David McCullough

Greatness is an opiate. — Toba Beta

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses. — Erving Goffman

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. — Emma Thompson

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker

Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists. — Adelaide Crapsey

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses. — Steven Kassels

Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It's more like the smelling salts. — Timothy Keller

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger

Religion is the opiate of the people! — Philip Roth

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. — Adam Jones

Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate — P.G. Wodehouse

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. — Chuck Palahniuk

When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose. — Ann Radcliffe

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine. — C.D. Wright

Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses. — Meg Jay

Communism is the opiate of the people. — Will Durant

Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses. — William Gibson

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? — Libba Bray

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial. — Germaine Greer

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. — Thurman Arnold

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. — Henry Miller

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?"
"You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft. — Cecily White

Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate. — Harold Bloom

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast. — Christopher Hitchens

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. — Eric Hoffer

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses — Bruce LaBruce

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. — Karl Marx

Television in its present form ... [is] the opiate of the people of the United States. — Richard M. Nixon