Opium Of The People Quotes

#1. Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

Anne Rice

#2. Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gideon Defoe

#3. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Carla H. Krueger

#4. When you're in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you're in love with a person, but you're in love with a syringe.

Craig Clevenger

#5. Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception ... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium ... Photograph and be photographed.

Alexander Rodchenko

#6. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Libba Bray

#7. I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

John Harris

#8. A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Czeslaw Milosz

#9. In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#10. [People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.

Evgeny Morozov

#11. My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

Brigham Young

#12. The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Pamela Stephenson

#13. Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but it turns far too many of them into tigers.

Hugh MacLennan

#14. Attention is the opium of the people

Fred Ross

#15. It is a downright brilliant art to be ,successful quiet, in a bright noisy world.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#16. The film drama is the opium of the people ... down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios ... long live life as it is!

Dziga Vertov

#17. I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

George Jones

#18. History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Auberon Waugh

#19. You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.

Madeline Hunter

#20. 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

#21. Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Miguel El Portugues

#22. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

#23. Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

Tony Kushner

#24. Case fatality is defined as the proportion of patients with the disease who die, whereas mortality, a population-based measure, is defined as the proportion of all the at-risk people who die from the disease.

Marya Zilberberg

#25. I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

Sonia Braga

#26. It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Simone Weil

#27. The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

Jean Danielou

#28. 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

#29. Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

John Desmond Bernal

#30. Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.

Ozzie Cheek

#31. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

Ernest Hemingway,

#32. Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.

Michel Foucault

#33. we have to bear in mind that culture is not necessarily transmitted in proportion to people's numbers. One charismatic personality will suffice to release a chain reaction. One

Gerhard Kubik

#34. Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Ludwig Von Mises

#35. It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

Frei Betto

#36. Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Regis Debray

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

Christopher Hitchens

#38. Optimism is the opium of the people.

Milan Kundera

#39. I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day.

Karina Halle

#40. I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

Bruce Forsyth

#41. It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

Margaret Mitchell