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Religion is the opiate of the people.
I did masses of opiates religiously.
Communism is the opiate of the people.
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
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.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion 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.
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as 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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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.
