Opiates Quotes

I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.

History is the raw material for nationalist or ethnic or fundamentalist ideologies, as poppies are the raw material of heroin addiction.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

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

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

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

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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 and stenches.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.