Opiates Quotes

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

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

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

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

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

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.

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

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

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

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

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

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

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

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

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.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

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

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

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

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."

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

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

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

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.