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Opiate Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
- Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
- I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit…
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- In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
- OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce
- Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C.S. Lewis
- 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
- I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly
- Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein
- You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
- Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. — Thurman Arnold
- Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond
- Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some… — Henry David Thoreau
- 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