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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

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