“(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. — Nick Nolte 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
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
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But… — Donna Marsh Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much… — Howard L. Fields 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
“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
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
“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about… — Alison Moore Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze… — Suzanne Collins 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
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Opiates: Perk 30s, Oxy Contins, Morphine, Heroin, and many more… Iits all over the high schools and they just suck the life… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
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
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States. — Richard M. Nixon 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