Opiates Quotes

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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.

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.

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.

Communism is the opiate of the people.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I did masses of opiates religiously.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

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