Opiates quotes
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people."
"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.""
