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Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. -- George Sterling
Religion is the opiate of the people. -- Karl Marx
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. -- Erica Jong
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
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. -- Audrey Niffenegger
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
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. -- Eric Hoffer
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. -- John Cowper Powys
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. -- Thomas Szasz
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. -- Clare Boothe Luce
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
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. -- Eric Hoffer
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
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." -- Kurt Vonnegut
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History. -- Joan Didion
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made. -- Zadie Smith
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. -- Cyril Connolly
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I did masses of opiates religiously. -- Carrie Fisher
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. -- Carrie Fisher
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. -- Neil Gaiman
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded. -- Samuel Johnson

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