Baseball Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

— N.D. Wilson

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of…

— Eugene Ionesco

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

— Thomas Szasz

Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is…

— Zadie Smith

Religion is the opiate of the people.

— Anonymous

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

— Carrie Fisher

Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen…

— Bill Watterson

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for…

— Adolf Hitler