Religion Opiate Quotes

#1. 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

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

Christopher Hitchens

#3. 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

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

Thomas Szasz

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.

Germaine Greer

#8. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

#9. 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

#10. Religion is the opiate of the people!

Philip Roth

#11. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

Emma Thompson

#12. If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

C.D. Wright

#13. 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

#14. Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism,

John Green

#15. Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Erving Goffman

#19. 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

#20. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher