Destroyed Quote by Auberon Waugh

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

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle…

— Fidel Castro

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

— Jean Danielou

It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while…

— Frei Betto

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow them to indulge in ale or…

— Thomas De Quincy

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not…

— H. Rider Haggard

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

— Robert Trout

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals. Many people,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

— Andre Malraux