God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
“There’s a saying that goes something like: ‘We are all one drink or pill away from addiction,’ and I know this is… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx 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
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
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the… — Stevie Smith 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
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits… — Ray Anderson 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
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
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
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem… — Michael Bihovsky 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
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 bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
