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> [Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/marx-was-wrong-religion-is-not-the-opiate-of-the-people-opium/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

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## More by Phillip Adams

> [Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/most-people-can-do-extraordinary-things-if-they-have-the-confidence/)

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> [Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/advertising-men-and-politicians-are-dangerous-if-they-are-separated/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-internet-provides-a-delivery-system-for-pathological-states-of/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/later-in-a-different-home-i-befriended-a-eucalypt-using-a-resilient/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-ve-spent-a-life-time-attacking-religious-beliefs-and-have-not/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/marx-was-wrong-religion-is-not-the-opiate-of-the-people-opium/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-book-can-produce-an-addiction-as-fierce-as-heroin-or-nicotine/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens-as-i-started-to-pick-up-the/)

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> [The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-old-dead-trees-are-the-most-fascinating-the-countless-trees-lying/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-events-of-september-11-were-carried-out-by-people-armed-not-with/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/unless-you-are-willing-to-try-fail-miserable-and-try-again-success/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/the-most-intense-hatreds-are-not-between-political-parties-but-within/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/unless-you-re-willing-to-have-a-go-fail-miserably-and-have-another-go/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/it-s-a-privilege-to-present-late-night-live-no-radio-program-anywhere/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

> [While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/while-sticks-and-stones-break-bones-words-can-never-hurt-manifestly/)

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