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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.

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.

C. S. Lewis
Atheist, People, Opiates

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

Thurman Arnold
Class, Opiates, Economic
Thurman Wesley Arnold (1950). “The Folklore of Capitalism”, p.16, Transaction Publishers

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.

Sharon Gannon
Pain, Opiates, Able
"Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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

Shannon Hale
Real, Practice, Opiates
Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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

Libba Bray
Powerful, Opiates, Might
Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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

Karl Marx
People, Religion, Opiates

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Gentleman, Opiates, Rich

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

Bill Watterson
Mean, Opiates, Television

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