Communist Quote by Jean Danielou

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

— Auberon Waugh

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

— Joan Robinson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

— Edmund Wilson

Attention is the opium of the people

— Fred Ross

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

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

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

“Religion is the opium of the people. He believed that, that dyspeptic little joint-keeper. Yes, and music is the opium of the people. Old…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Andre Malraux

“Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne