Edmund Wilson
Literary Critic and Essayist
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
Opium quotes
Opium
9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Religion is the opium of the poor."
Simone Weil
Philosopher, Activist
"It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people."
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