If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots…

“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what…

— Naomi Klein

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

“Religion is the opium of the people. He believed that, that dyspeptic little joint-keeper. Yes, and music is the opium of the people. Old…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Dripping charnel grounds of light - I examine hope & fear - blue-black body monster of enlightenment - call me Youthful Lightning Bolt -…

— Marc Olmsted

“I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going…

— Anonymous

“There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room and he says…

— Marc Olmsted

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses'. Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Islam and Christianity…

— John Green

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac…

— Phillip Adams