Religion Is The Opium Quotes

#1. 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

#2. After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

Bruno Bauer

#3. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

#4. 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

#5. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Religion is the opium of the poor

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Miguel El Portugues

#12. 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

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

Simone Weil

#14. Religion is opium for the masses

Nikos Kazantzakis

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

#19. Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

#20. 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

#21. Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Bill Gaede

#22. 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

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

Regis Debray

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

Christopher Hitchens