Top 34 Masses Religion Quotes
#2. When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#3. 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
#4. I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.
M.F. Moonzajer
#5. 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
#6. The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
Albert Einstein
#7. Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.
Pope Francis
#8. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#10. Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
#11. Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
#13. Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
#14. There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses
Christopher Hitchens
#15. America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.
Dan Brown
#16. The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who - in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses" - cannot hear the music of the spheres.
Albert Einstein
#17. He beheld Lourdes, contaminated by Mammon, turned into a spot of abomination and perdition, transformed into a huge bazaar, where everything was sold, masses and souls alike!
Emile Zola
#18. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
#19. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
#20. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#21. Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
Joseph Goebbels
#22. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Kerry Thornley
#23. Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
Erving Goffman
#24. 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
#25. People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.
J.A. Konrath
#26. Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!
Raheel Farooq
#27. Politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.
Roseanne Barr
#28. It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism,
John Green
#30. Religion was dangerous, anti-intellectual, a crutch for the masses, and a game for the foolish, the poor, and the hypocrites. (Jacques Miroux)
Joel C. Rosenberg
#31. There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil, but now we are in the time of the technological advancement, we are educated and we must let go off religion.
M.F. Moonzajer
#32. I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.
Neil Gaiman
#33. If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.
C.D. Wright
#34. The ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument - in short, popular religion may be summed up as respect for ecclesiastics.
Christopher Hitchens
