Opiate Of The People Quotes

#1. Religion is the opiate of the people!

Philip Roth

#2. Communism is the opiate of the people.

Will Durant

#3. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Thomas Szasz

#7. Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It's more like the smelling salts.

Timothy Keller

#8. Television in its present form ... [is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

Richard M. Nixon

#9. 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

#10. Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.

John Lasseter

#11. Adela you are as smart as a boy." This remark stung, because if it meant that I was as smart as my brothers, I was still destined for idiocy.

Anonymous

#12. The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn't guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation,

Brigid Schulte

#13. Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.

Diane Williams

#14. Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.

Harold Bloom

#15. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.

Meg Jay

#16. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

#17. Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Tom Stoppard

#18. We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

Dorothy Day

#19. If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

Stevie Nicks

#21. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Eric Hoffer

#22. If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer.

Charlotte Kasl

#23. It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.

Anonymous

#25. God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, I choose you. You are beautiful.

Katie J. Davis

#26. If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.

Lawren Leo

#27. i was becoming a sack of vomit and fecal matter. i suppose, on reflection, that that is what i had always been, but nature had not formerly imposed this aspect of the human condition quite so vividly upon me.

Harry F. Saint

#28. Successful people have not spared time to achieve their dreams but have struggled to bring their Imaginations to perfection coupled with perfecting their skills at hand

Emma Kizito

#29. 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

#30. I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

Lupe Fiasco

#31. A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

Xavier Dolan

#32. Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Whitaker Chambers