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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. -- Adam Jones
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. -- Erica Jong
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. -- Russell Baker
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. -- Henry Miller
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. -- Eric Hoffer
An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together. -- James D. Watson
Religion is the opiate of the people. -- Karl Marx
Communism is the opiate of the people. -- Will Durant
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses -- Bruce LaBruce
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. -- Thurman Arnold
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? -- Libba Bray
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. -- Audrey Niffenegger
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States. -- Richard M. Nixon
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. -- Ambrose Bierce
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. -- Emma Thompson
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. -- Carrie Fisher
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. -- Thomas Szasz
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away. -- N.D. Wilson
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?""You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft. -- Cecily White
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
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. -- Richard J. Foster
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

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