Religion The Opiate Of The Masses Quotes

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

Emma Thompson

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

Carrie Fisher

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

Erving Goffman

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

John Green

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

C.D. Wright

#8. 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

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

Carrie Fisher