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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Parenthood 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.

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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."

I did masses of opiates religiously.