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(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God. — Lenny Bruce

Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. — Okakura Kakuzo

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke. — Roman Payne

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

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

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. — Nick Nolte

I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds. — Christophe Lemaitre

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness. — Lisa Gardner

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

Information is power, particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same. — Mark Cuban

2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States. — Sam Quinones

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

To try and forget, rasa the tabula, wipe the memory totally out, numb it with opiates. — David Foster Wallace

June, Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips. — Marie Lu

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

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded. — Samuel Johnson

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does. — Mike Lee

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! — William Strunk Jr.

Teenage bodies should be filled with Vonnegut and meatball subs, not opiates that create glassy-eyed party monsters. — Amy Poehler

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted. — Paulo Coelho

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being. — Karl Popper

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand. — George MacDonald

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. — Neil Gaiman

Texas still hadn't been resolved. — M.C. Walker

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

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience. — Joan Countryman

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

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

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief. — Hope Mirrlees

There's no blade in the world as sharp as rejection. — Toni Sorenson

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses — Bruce LaBruce

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

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

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler

Communism is the opiate of the people. — Will Durant

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