Top 68 Opiate Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Thomas Szasz
#3. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
Meg Jay
#4. Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists.
Adelaide Crapsey
#5. Fantasy is not practice for what is real - fantasy is the opiate of women.
Shannon Hale
#6. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
A.W. Tozer
#7. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.
Sharon Brous
#8. 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
#9. Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller
#10. 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
#11. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.
Sonya Huber
#12. 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
#14. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top,
Edgar Allan Poe
#18. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
#19. Succeeding Dexter's first exhilaration came restlessness and dissatisfaction. The helpless ecstasy of losing himself in her was opiate rather than tonic. It was fortunate for his work during the winter that those moments of ecstasy came infrequently.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.
William Gibson
#21. Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.
Thomas Hardy
#23. 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
#24. It was time for her to finally get that all of that sanctimonious drivel is just the opiate of the masses. Ha, even I was educated enough to know that quote. From Gandhi.
Jutta Profijt
#25. Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
Clare Boothe Luce
#26. Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It's more like the smelling salts.
Timothy Keller
#27. 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
#28. If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.
Charlie Sheen
#31. Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.
Michael D. O'Brien
#32. Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
Thurman Arnold
#33. Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night,
Jack Kerouac
#34. Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
Erving Goffman
#35. Organized religion is the frozen thought of man, out of which he builds temples and churches; it has become a solace for the fearful, an opiate for those who are in sorrow. But God or truth is far beyond thought and emotional demands.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#36. Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism,
John Green
#37. Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong
#39. 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
#40. Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves ...
Henry David Thoreau
#41. 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
#42. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
Steven Kassels
#43. Communism is the opiate of the people.
Will Durant
#44. The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#46. In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker
#47. 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
#48. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#49. OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Ambrose Bierce
#50. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
Ann Radcliffe
#51. Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar.
Philip Roth
#52. Writing poetry is like an opiate. When you get hooked on a blank page in the notebook, that attracts you like fireflies in the night, and you just have to translate your thoughts into words.
I'm addicted to words.
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
#54. 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
#55. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
#57. 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
#58. There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.
Terry Eagleton
#59. Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate
P.G. Wodehouse
#60. Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones
#61. Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#62. Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
Libba Bray
#63. Television in its present form ... [is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
Richard M. Nixon
#64. If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.
C.D. Wright
#65. The CDC recently reported that opiate addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem, with the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year enough to medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.
Taite Adams
#67. Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in function and minimal risk of addiction.
Andrew Rosenblum
#68. Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
