Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“with opiates I was relaxed, I was tolerant, I was up for anything, I could stand pleasantly for hours in unbearable situations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Opiates are compounds derived from opium and include morphine, codeine, and a variety of related alkaloids. The term opioid is broader and… — Alex S. Evers Copy Share Image
Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod,… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“New research shows that the number of babies born in Massachusetts with opiates in their system is more than triple the national… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain,… — Andrew Rosenblum Copy Share Image
“When you laugh and play, your body is calmed and energized by the release of natural opiates—endorphins that relax you physically and… — Jeanne Segal Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
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