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Opiates Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes…
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
More Opiates Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher