Opiates Quotations

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

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

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

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

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

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

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

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

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

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

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

Communism is the opiate of the people.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

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

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

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.