1996 Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image ““If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1996 Atheism Cornel-west Opium-of-the-people Religion
“religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.” — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
“Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino» Copy Share Image
“If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.” — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It’s more like the smelling salts.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Dripping charnel grounds of light - I examine hope & fear - blue-black body monster of enlightenment - call me Youthful Lightning Bolt -… — Marc Olmsted Copy Share Image
“Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room and he says… — Marc Olmsted Copy Share Image
“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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