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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
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
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
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
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
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
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