Top 31 Religion The Opiate Quotes
#1. Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism,
John Green
#2. 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
#3. There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
Ruben Blades
#5. 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
#6. Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
Henry Kissinger
#7. Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Thomas Szasz
#8. I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.
Stana Katic
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
Tom Brady
#13. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. Once I slapped a rapper with mace,
Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait ...
I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.
Pharoahe Monch
#18. Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.
Iyanla Vanzant
#20. If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.
C.D. Wright
#21. The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
Barry Goldwater
#22. 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
#23. How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?
James Madison
#24. This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!
Thomas Wolfe
#26. I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
James Spithill
#27. 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
#28. Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
Erving Goffman
#29. 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
#30. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#31. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
